Painter

Across all employers in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, the median wage for Painters, Construction and Maintenance — about 11,930 people — is $61,420. Department of Environment Protection pays a median base salary of $92,191 for this role, 50% above that figure — about the 80th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 2 of 3 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at Department of Environment Protection is $104,823, 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.

Painter is held in 19 New York City departments. In Department of Environment Protection, the median of $104,823 ranks #10 of 19.

This role is reported in 28 jurisdictions. In New York City, the median of $123,012 ranks #5 of 28. See Painter across all of New York City →