City of Buffalo / Pub Wks, Pks & St - Laborers / Painter
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
1 employees hold this title in Pub Wks, Pks & St - Laborers. Median total compensation for the role is $48,709, above the department median of $38,112.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY area, the median wage for Painters, Construction and Maintenance — about 750 people — is $53,340. Pub Wks, Pks & St - Laborers pays a median base salary of $43,611 for this role, 18% below that figure — about the 19th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Painters, Construction and Maintenance across every employer in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Pub Wks, Pks & St - Laborers’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Painters, Construction and Maintenance — about 225,190 people — is $49,400. Pub Wks, Pks & St - Laborers’s median base salary is 12% below that national figure, about the 23rd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Pub Wks, Pks & St - Laborers is $48,709, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Painter is held in 2 City of Buffalo departments. In Pub Wks, Pks & St - Laborers, the median of $48,709 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Painter role in other City of Buffalodepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 28 jurisdictions. See Painter across all of City of Buffalo →
Median total compensation for comparable Painterroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Painter/Pub Wks, Pks & St - Laborers
Source-specific fields
Michael Schroeder works as a Painter for Pub Wks, Pks & St - Laborers within General Government Support. Michael earned $48,709 in 2026.