Historic Restoration Contractor
Repairs old buildings using original methods and materials. Combines a trade, a licence and archival research.
- Pay band (est.)
- $79k–$127k
- Time to competence
- 8 years
- Licence
- Required
- Setting
- site
- Leverage
- high
- Place constraint
- medium
- Physical demand
- 75/100
- Hours burden
- 65/100
Factor percentiles
Percentile against the whole curated set. Higher is better on that factor only.
- Play86th
Absorbing rather than merely paid.
- Specific knowledge84th
A combination of skills that is hard to copy.
- Leverage86th
Output that scales through code, media, capital or crew.
- Demand54th
Durability and shortage, scored conservatively.
- Pay53th
Mid-career floor and the range above it.
- Body17th
Inverse of physical demand and hours.
- Autonomy74th
Control of methods and time.
- People fit89th
Distance from your preferred people level.
- Place flexibility35th
Remote fit and freedom from specific metros.
- Time to skill16th
Inverse of years to competence.
- Meaning load50th
Closeness to the families you marked as meaningful. Your mapping, not ours.
- Downside tolerance34th
Inverse of named risk to body, market or platform.
Downside
Permitting delays; clients and grants both move slowly.
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 65/100 and people intensity 60/100. Who you are with is analysed at relationistics.com.
Source note: BLS OEWS May 2024, First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers (47-1011): median $78,690, 90th percentile $126,690. Outlook from BLS 2025-35 projections, +5.0%. Other scores editorial. All figures are estimates for comparison.