# Labor cost to paint a 12x12 room (3 sources)

> The median published figure in the Painter Labour And Material Rates is 23.75 USD across 3 sources' own pages (range 23.75 to 25.05 USD), read 12 October 2026.

Topcoatly · https://topcoatly.com/datasets/painter-labour-and-material-rates/ · computed 2026-10-18

**Median published figure:** 23.75 USD (range 23.75 to 25.05 USD; 3 sources with a figure; 3 of 11 sources read publish one).

3 of the 11 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 12 October 2026.

The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 23.75 USD across 3).

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Painters, Construction and Maintenance](https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes472141.htm) | 25.05 USD | 2026-10-12 |
| [O*NET OnLine (US DOL), 47-2141.00 - Painters, Construction and Maintenance](https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/47-2141.00) | 23.75 USD | 2026-10-12 |
| [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Painters, Construction and Maintenance : Occupational Outloo](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/painters-construction-and-maintenance.htm) | 23.75 USD | 2026-10-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (3)

- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Painters, Construction and Maintenance](https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes472141.htm), read 2026-10-12: "215,910 1.4 % $ 25.05 $ 52,110 0.5 %"
- [O*NET OnLine (US DOL), 47-2141.00 - Painters, Construction and Maintenance](https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/47-2141.00), read 2026-10-12: "Median wages $23.75 hourly, $49,400 annual"
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Painters, Construction and Maintenance : Occupational Outloo](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/painters-construction-and-maintenance.htm), read 2026-10-12: "2025 Median Pay $49,400 per year $23.75 per hour"

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) Tables](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472141.htm), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index News Release summary - 2026 M08 Results](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wages Summary - 2025 A01 Results](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.nr0.htm), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- [FRED (St. Louis Fed), Producer Price Index by Industry: Paint and Coating Manufact](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCU325510325510), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [US Census Bureau, Construction Spending](https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/c30index.html), read 2026-10-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [FRED (St. Louis Fed), Producer Price Index by Industry: Paint and Coating Manufact](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCU32551032551011), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) Tables](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index Home : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/ppi/), read 2026-10-10: every candidate on the page was refused

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 3 of the 11 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 8 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 60 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the BLS OES mean and median hourly wage for occupation 47-2141 by state and metro, indexed against the national figure, set beside the PPI series for paint and coating manufacturing; the derivation is the labour-and-material cost floor per state - what a crew must be paid and what a gallon costs - against which the cost index's published prices are read, and the changed-since on each release

## Sources

- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Painters, Construction and Maintenance : Occupational Outloo](https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/painters-construction-and-maintenance.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Painters, Construction and Maintenance](https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/oes472141.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) Tables](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes472141.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index News Release summary - 2026 M08 Results](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wages Summary - 2025 A01 Results](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.nr0.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [FRED (St. Louis Fed), Producer Price Index by Industry: Paint and Coating Manufact](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCU325510325510) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Census Bureau, Construction Spending](https://www.census.gov/construction/c30/c30index.html) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [FRED (St. Louis Fed), Producer Price Index by Industry: Paint and Coating Manufact](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCU32551032551011) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [O*NET OnLine (US DOL), 47-2141.00 - Painters, Construction and Maintenance](https://www.onetonline.org/link/summary/47-2141.00) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) Tables](https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index Home : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/ppi/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

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- The median published figure in the Painter Labour And Material Rates is 23.75 USD across 3 sources' own pages (range 23.75 to 25.05 USD), read 12 October 2026.
- 3 of the 11 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
- The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 23.75 USD across 3).

Cite as: "Topcoatly Painter Labour And Material Rates", updated 2026-10-18, https://topcoatly.com/datasets/painter-labour-and-material-rates/.

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