Depending on where you bullwork, you might earn approximately $40,000 as a custom Car painter.
Innovatory individuals with an consequence in Car thing repair and restoration might be great candidates for jobs as custom Car painters. The gig entails designing and applying customized decorative and industrial colouring designs to cars, trucks, buses, recreational vehicles and transportation equipment. The Simply Hired career and salary website reports that the overall average yearly salary for custom auto painters was about $40,000 in 2010, and the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics offers additional information specific to industry fields and nationwide locations.
Broad Statistics
The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics includes custom auto painters as "Painting and Coating Workers" in its 2010-11 Occupational Outlook Handbook. According to the document, statistics show that coating and painting workers of all positions combined earned an average hourly salary of about $13.66 in May 2008. The lowest wages reported were $9.18 per hour among the lower Ten percent of participants. Highest wages during the reporting period reached $20.35 an hour for the top Ten percent. The median Fifty percent of position holders had wages ranging from $11.00 to $16.97 an hour.
Lowest Earnings
In 2011, CB Salary estimated that the average yearly earning for position holders was between $33,505 and $56,840 with the middle Fifty percent of workers earning just about $41,500; a figure fairly consistent with Simply Hired's calculations. However, certain regional variations in salary may exist nationwide.BLS statistics show that some of the top paying states for custom auto painters are Washington, Connecticut, Wyoming, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts where position holders earn between $30,080 and $39,310 annually. The lowest paying regions include Atlanta, Houston and Orlando, where salaries ranging from $23,990 to $26,460 per year in 2010.
Highest Earnings
Custom auto painters may find a significant increase in earning potential working in transportation equipment painting -- such as buses, trains, airplanes, boats and construction equipment vehicles. BLS estimates that transportation equipment painters earned about $18.77 per hour -- $39,040 annually -- in May of 2010. Wage statistics varied according to specific fields of industry but included mean wages of $20.58 per hour ( $42,810 annually) for painters working at automotive repair and body shops, $21.52 ( $44,760) working for a car dealer and $23.42 per hour ($48,720) in auto manufacturing plants.
Regional Variances
Your annual yearly salary as a custom auto painter may also fluctuate according to where you live and work.BLS offers limited information regarding painting salaries specific to custom automotive design. However, in the May Two thousand ten Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, BLS reports that painting and coating workers in the automotive manufacturing and repair industries earned a mean hourly wage of $17.20; or $35,770 per year during the reporting period. Figures indicate that custom auto painters earned on average nearly $10,000 more per year than the median average painting and coating workers salary.
