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Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers pay in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL and New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers is $36,540 per year in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL. It is $72,610 per year in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL is 49.7% below New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 51-9123 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 320 wage and salary jobs in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL and 180 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.