Job description

Furniture Finishers shape, finish, and refinish damaged, worn, or used furniture or new high-grade furniture to specified color or finish.

• Confer with customers to determine furniture colors or finishes.
• Brush, spray, or hand-rub finishing ingredients, such as paint, oil, stain, or wax, onto and into wood grain and apply lacquer or other sealers.
• Fill and smooth cracks or depressions, remove marks and imperfections, and repair broken parts, using plastic or wood putty, glue, nails, or screws.
• Smooth, shape, and touch up surfaces to prepare them for finishing, using sandpaper, pumice stones, steel wool, chisels, sanders, or grinders.

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Salary

Furniture Finishers with little to no experience tend to make between $22600 and $26700 while the more experienced ones can earn over $38930 per year.

One of the easiest ways to increase your salary as a Furniture Finisher is to move to a higher paying state like NH. Right now, the highest paying states for Furniture Finishers are NH, RI, NE, CT and WA.

However, a higher pay at NH doesn’t guarantee that you will make more because the living expenses at NH might be twice as high than where you are currently at now.

Three other factors that can increase your salary as a Furniture Finisher is the degree you hold, the industry you work in, and lastly the company you work for.

Requirements

We asked other Furniture Finishers what degree they had when they got the job and most of them said they had a High School Diploma followed by less than a High School Diploma.

Other than that, we also asked them what did they major in and here are the most popular majors that came up.

Pros and Cons

Here are some of the pros and cons of being a Furniture Finisher.

What is the job like

72% of Furniture Finishers said they were satisfied with their job and 52% said they feel like their job is making other people’s lives better.

Is this right for me

You can read more about these career personality types here.

People who are suitable for this job tends to like work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They like working with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery..

They also like working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

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