Compared with the local labor market
Painter pay vs. the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL area
Across all employers in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL area, the median wage for Painters, Construction and Maintenance — about 6,210 people — is $48,490. Libraries pays a median base salary of $48,379 for this role, in line with that figure — about the 50th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Libraries sits in the local pay range
$37,830
$40,300
$48,490
$56,700
$65,630
Libraries median · $48,379
The bar is the range of annual wages for Painters, Construction and Maintenance across every employer in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Libraries’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. Libraries’s median base salary is 2% below that national figure, about the 45th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$37,440
$44,640
$49,400
$61,660
$78,810
Libraries median · $48,379
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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Libraries is $48,379, 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 jurisdictions
Painter beyond Miami-Dade County
This role is reported in 28 jurisdictions. In Miami-Dade County, the median of $67,396 ranks #17 of 28. See Painter across all of Miami-Dade County →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
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.