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.)
- $38k–$95k
- 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.
- Demand16th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay14th
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 load52th
Care, craft and stewardship weight. Not a moral score.
- Downside tolerance31th
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: Trade survey patterns; editorial estimate. All figures are estimates for comparison.