New York City / Police Department / Painter
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
16 employees hold this title in Police Department. Median total compensation for the role is $127,265, above the department median of $91,862.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 16 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
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. Police Department pays a median base salary of $92,139 for this role, 50% above that figure — about the 80th 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Police Department’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. Police Department’s median base salary is 87% above that national figure, above the 90th 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 15 of 16 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 Police Department is $127,265, 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 19 New York City departments. In Police Department, the median of $127,265 ranks #5 of 19.
Median total compensation for the Painter role in other New York Citydepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
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 →
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/Police Department
Source-specific fields
Boris Bilenkis is a Painter at Police Department based in Manhattan. They have served since 2018 (about 7 years). 2025 total compensation came to $78,082.