Furniture Maker
Designs and builds commissioned pieces in wood and mixed materials. The work is slow, the market is small, the mastery is legible.
- Pay band (est.)
- $46k–$63k
- Time to competence
- 7 years
- Licence
- None
- Setting
- studio
- Leverage
- medium
- Place constraint
- medium
- Physical demand
- 65/100
- Hours burden
- 55/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play94th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge81th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage49th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand13th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay4th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body33th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy54th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit49th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility31th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill28th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance37th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Thin market; hours priced below cost until a name is built.
Examine this against your weights
The percentiles above use the default weights. Set your own on the ranking and this vocation moves with them.
- Place constraint is medium. Where you live is analysed at locationistics.com.
- Hours burden is 55/100 and people intensity 35/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters (51-7011): median $46,020, 90th percentile $63,220. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, -2.9%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.