Auto Painter Statistics 2026: Job Market, Pay, Demand & Workforce

AutoTechHires had 326 open auto painter listings from 58 employers on November 13, 2026.

99 were first posted in the previous 14 days and 189 in the previous 30 days.

At least 0.3% of auto painter listings were part-time on November 13, 2026.

Listings that name no schedule are counted as full-time, so the real part-time share is likely higher.

The benefit auto painter listings named most often on November 13, 2026 was 401(k) plan, in 44.8% of listings, followed by paid time off (44.5%).

A listing that does not mention a benefit may still offer it.

To browse the openings themselves, see all auto painter listings.

BLS publishes no auto painter-only wage, so the figure here is for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders (SOC 51-9124), a stand-in only, because BLS has no auto painter occupation and this one is mostly factory spray-machine work.

The median wage for that occupation was $23.20 an hour in May 2025 (BLS OEWS, Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders (SOC 51-9124), May 2025 (stand-in)).

The middle half of workers in that occupation earned $19.52 to $28.69 an hour.

Employers hiring auto painters on AutoTechHires advertise a median of $24.00 an hour across 13 employers on November 13, 2026; this is advertised pay, not earnings.

For pay by state, percentile and experience, see the auto painter salary guide.

Florida had the most open auto painter listings on November 13, 2026, with 25 (7.7% of the national total).

To browse the openings in one state, start with auto painter openings in Florida.

58 employers had open auto painter listings on AutoTechHires on November 13, 2026, and the five largest posted 81% of them.

46 employers (79.3%) had exactly one open auto painter listing.

The largest single employer, Carvana, posted 35.6% of all auto painter listings, so this sample leans toward large employers.

BLS has no auto painter occupation; the nearest one, coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders, had 158,740 workers on payroll in May 2025 at a median of $23.20 an hour, and most of them run factory spray lines rather than refinish cars (BLS OEWS, SOC 51-9124).

Inside body, paint and glass shops, the same BLS occupation had 25,440 payroll jobs in May 2025 at a median of $57,020 a year ($27.42 an hour) (BLS OEWS industry estimates, NAICS 811120).

Listing figures are computed from every active, paid auto painter listing on AutoTechHires at the time shown, and refreshed every six hours.

Listings on a job board are not a random sample of all auto painter jobs, so read them as a picture of current hiring, not of total employment.

This page is published only while the live sample has at least 300 listings from 25 employers.

Advertised pay is the midpoint of the range an employer posts, or its single figure, and hourly and annual postings are never converted into each other.

The headline is the employer median: each employer’s own median, then the median across employers, so a group posting hundreds of openings counts once.

A pay figure needs at least 30 listings from 10 employers and is withheld when one employer posted more than half of them.

Federal figures come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the other sources listed below, quoted as published, with the year in each sentence.

BLS has no auto painter occupation. The BLS figures on this page are for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders (SOC 51-9124), shown only as a labelled stand-in; most of that occupation works in factories, so the shop-industry row is the closer read.