How much money does an automotive designer earn?

Answer 1

That depends on so many different things. Just throwing out a random dollar amount will be right someplace on earth. There are trained apprentice painters there are journeymen painters, there's guys doing this stuff out of their back yards. People with no training just experience. Custom airbrush/pin stripping guys, etc, etc.

Then you have to talk about location, expertise, experience, are they part of a body shop or stand alone paint and graphics house, way too many variables here.

But in general an apprentice can start at around $9-10/hr in a professional body shop. It goes up from there. WAY UP with custom work (usually paid by the job), ie. some custom paint jobs cost tens of thousands of dollars per vehicle!

The preceding answer is good, but I think I can add some help full advice to young people who are looking into an automotive painting career. My first word of advice is DO NOT GO TO A SCHOOL TO LEARN HOW TO PAINT! You will get out of "school" with about $18k of debt and you will not get hired as a painter. You may get hired as an apprentice, but probably not. You have a better chance of getting hired as an apprentice if you just look for a job in the field and show some passion for it. You will not make a lot of money at first but it's better than paying some "School". I start an apprentice off at 25% of our flag money. Flag money is $19 per our at the shop I work at. 25% of $19 is $4.75, but we usually flag 110-130 hrs per week so that's $500-625 per week. The helper I have now has been with me for some time and could be a painter at any shop so I pay him 40%, but all I have to do is match color and spray.

Answer 2

A automotive painter makes 15-20 an hour depends on place and type of work being done. I have been painting for some time.stright paint ie prediction painter body shop painter and custom painter i have done all of thees worst in my case is body shop painter due to insurance adjusters or quoits not giving Enoch time on the job to make enough money as you are suppose to be able to turn hours meaning being able to do the job in half the time they give you to do the job! and the more insurance companies squeeze their way in the body shops the worse it gets from hours to recycled parts junkyard parts..

Answer 3

arounD 68MILLION TO 45 BILLION