Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

SOC 51-9124 · 2024-2034

Set up, operate, or tend spraying or rolling machines to coat or paint any of a wide variety of products, including glassware, cloth, ceramics, metal, plastic, paper, or wood, with lacquer, silver, copper, rubber, varnish, glaze, enamel, oil, or rust-proofing materials. Includes painters of transportation vehicles such as painters in auto body repair facilities.

How the U.S. Department of Labor describes this work. Published in English only.

The job this trains for

Typical pay in California: $54,158per year
Projected openings: 11,790
Projected change: +2.5%
Usually needs: High school diploma or equivalent

Skills this work uses most

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, rates how important each of these is to this work, and they are listed in that order, most important first. The ratings themselves are not shown, because the data carries the number without the scale it was measured on. The names are as published, in English.

Operations Monitoring
Monitoring
Operation and Control
Quality Control Analysis
Equipment Maintenance
Repairing

Pay by region

Region	Typical pay in California	Projected openings
Eastern Sierra-Mother Lode Region (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Inyo, Mariposa, Mono, and Tuolumne Counties)	$71,767	50
Oakland-Fremont-Berkeley MD (Alameda and Contra Costa Counties)	$64,635	1,000
Napa MSA (Napa County)	$64,431	40
San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City MD (San Francisco and San Mateo Counties)	$62,344	420
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA (San Benito and Santa Clara Counties)	$61,887	580
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles MSA (San Luis Obispo County)	$61,435	60
Santa Cruz-Watsonville MSA (Santa Cruz County)	$59,794	60
Vallejo MSA (Solano County)	$59,691	100
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom MSA (El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, and Yolo Counties)	$57,752	780
San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad MSA (San Diego County)	$57,721	840
Redding MSA (Shasta County)	$54,890	70
Chico MSA (Butte County)	$53,156	60
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale MD (Los Angeles County)	$52,267	2,740
Salinas MSA (Monterey County)	$52,181	70
Santa Rosa-Petaluma MSA (Sonoma County)	$51,863	170
North Valley-Northern Mountains Region (Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity Counties)	$51,083	70
Yuba City MSA (Sutter and Yuba Counties)	$50,704	40
Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine MD (Orange County)	$50,520	1,260
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (Ventura County)	$50,375	230
El Centro MSA (Imperial County)	$50,293	30
Fresno MSA (Fresno and Madera Counties)	$50,252	330
Hanford-Corcoran MSA (Kings County)	$50,026	30
North Coast Region (Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, and Mendocino Counties)	$49,955	60
Stockton-Lodi MSA (San Joaquin County)	$49,944	260
Bakersfield-Delano MSA (Kern County)	$49,688	210
Visalia MSA (Tulare County)	$49,575	90
Merced MSA (Merced County)	$49,062	60
Modesto MSA (Stanislaus County)	$49,062	150
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties)	$48,652	1,410
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara MSA (Santa Barbara County)	$39,869	190
San Rafael MD (Marin County)	Not reported	60

Similar work

O*NET, the U.S. Department of Labor's occupation database, names these as occupations involving work similar to this one — its own reading of the job, not a grouping by code. They keep O*NET's order, and only those California publishes a projection for are shown.

The job this trains for	Typical pay in California	Projected openings	Projected change
Furniture Finishers	$50,200	1,240	-13.3%
Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic	$47,827	4,190	-16.1%
Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic	$50,312	5,510	+2.3%
Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand	$45,464	1,100	-26.3%
Painters, Construction and Maintenance	$60,619	48,920	+5.3%

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