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Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons pay in Baton Rouge, LA and New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons is $44,330 per year in Baton Rouge, LA. It is $52,000 per year in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Baton Rouge, LA is 14.8% below New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 47-3014 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 80 wage and salary jobs in Baton Rouge, LA and Not published in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.