Commercial painting recruiters serving Akron.
Standard commercial painting demand runs at a modest regional discount, with healthcare-facility coatings for Akron Children's as a smaller specialty niche.
A hospital consolidating from leased space.
Metro pay for every role we recruit is in the table below. What the hub does name: Akron Children's Considine Building addition as the driver of a real healthcare-facility coatings niche.
We recruit across the full org chart for commercial painting contractors in Akron against that documented context.
A purpose-built pediatric hospital addition.
One named driver, underway.
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Consolidating hospital functions into a purpose-built addition - the named driver behind healthcare-facility coatings.
What commercial painting roles pay in Akron.
In the Akron metro, BLS puts the median for painters, construction and maintenance at $57,560 a year, 17% above the $49,400 national median. Among the 112 metros BLS publishes for this occupation, Akron ranks 17th on pay. Most of the market sits between $37,720 and $74,410. Of the other field roles, industrial coatings sprayer pays the most locally, at a $48,900 median. BLS does not publish Akron pay for painter helper, which it withholds where a metro's sample is too small to be reliable. National benchmarks by role are in the 2026 Commercial Painting Salary Guide.
| Role | Akron median | Typical range | National median | vs. national | Employed locally |
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| Commercial PainterPainters, Construction and Maintenance (47-2141) | $57,560 | $37,720–$74,410 | $49,400 | +17% | 460 |
| Painter HelperHelpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons (47-3014) | – | – | $40,470 | – | – |
| Industrial Coatings SprayerCoating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders (51-9124) | $48,900 | $36,220–$68,430 | $48,250 | +1% | 490 |
| Painting ForemanFirst-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers (47-1011) | $80,660 | $58,520–$106,170 | $79,920 | +1% | – |
| EstimatorCost Estimators (13-1051) | $77,490 | $50,030–$122,300 | $78,740 | −2% | – |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, Akron metro. Range is 10th to 90th percentile. Headcount is shown for field occupations only; management, estimating and supervisory codes are counted across every industry in the metro.
What candidates expect. What credentials matter. What kills offers.
We don't tell prospective clients who their competitors are hiring - that's a discipline our clients value, and we'll honor it on a call. What we will share publicly: how Akron commercial painting hiring actually plays out in 2026.
Why we name the Considine Building addition specifically
The metro's own data ties healthcare-facility coatings directly to this addition, consolidating hospital functions currently spread across leased spaces.
Why the regional discount is the honest baseline here
The hub is explicit: standard commercial painting demand runs at a modest regional discount, with Akron Children's as the named exception.
What this means for sourcing
We source against verified healthcare-facility coatings experience for Akron Children's-adjacent roles, and standard commercial experience at the region's modest discount rate for conventional repaint work.
Realistic timelines
Standard commercial painting roles: 4-6 weeks intake to signed offer. Healthcare-facility specialty roles run longer given the smaller qualified pool. First slate of vetted candidates within 48 hours regardless.
The commercial painting positions we fill, most often.
Across all Akron commercial painting clients, these are the highest-volume roles we've recruited for in the last 24 months.
- Healthcare-facility coatings applicator (pediatric hospital)
- Commercial painter
- Commercial painting project manager
For the broader picture across every commercial trade in Akron, see the Akron metro overview. To learn more about commercial painting generally (across all 100+ markets we serve), see our Commercial Painting industry page.
How we recruit commercial painting in Akron, plainly.
Same approach we use in every market - but tuned for what works in Akron's commercial painting segment specifically:
- Same-day intake call. We get the role, the project context, the budget, your dealbreakers. For Akron painting work, we also confirm whether healthcare-facility experience is required.
- Candidate sourcing within 48 hours. We pull from our existing Akron commercial painting candidate network, filtered for verified healthcare-facility coatings experience where relevant.
- Vetted short list (week one to several weeks). Three to five candidates. We verify real coatings history rather than a line on a resume.
- Offer and close. Standard roles close in 4-6 weeks. We help with offer math against Akron's documented general context.
Akron sits at about the national rate for commercial painting — neither unusually deep nor unusually thin.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 , Painters, Construction and Maintenance. Metro-wide figures for the base occupation; the wage table above is role-specific and commercial.
How Akron's commercial painting market compares
In 2023 the Akron metro had 17 nonresidential painting contractors (counted by business location). BLS publishes that count but withholds headcount and pay here, which it does when a category is small enough that the figures could identify individual employers. The number of these employers rose 6.2%, more firms competing for the same crews. That works out to 2.4 per 100,000 residents against 2.0 nationally, a crowded field where experienced people get approached often.
Among the 100 metros we cover with published BLS figures, Akron ranks 74th for headcount, 15th for median pay and 44th for concentration for painters, construction and maintenance.
| Metro | Employed | Median pay | Concentration | Commercial employers |
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| Cleveland | 1,110 | $49,590 | 0.74 | 50 |
| Columbus | 980 | $51,810 | 0.61 | 36 |
| Cincinnati | 890 | $50,170 | 0.56 | 33 |
| Akron | 460 | $57,560 | 0.99 | 17 |
| Dayton | 300 | $47,310 | 0.56 | 9 |
BLS OEWS occupation figures and QCEW business-location counts; a dash means not published.
What this means for hiring:For commercial painting employers in Akron, the pool is about the national norm for its size, so difficulty depends on the role more than the market.
Sources: BLS QCEW 2023 annual averages and BLS OEWS May 2025, Akron metro. Employers are counted by business location.
How Akron's commercial painting market has changed since 2018.
The number of nonresidential painting contractors in Akron rose from 16 in 2018 to 17 in 2023, up 6%, ahead of the 4% national decline. BLS stops short of publishing headcount and pay for them here, which happens when a handful of firms account for most of the work.
| Measure | 2018 | 2023 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nonresidential painting contractors: business locations | 16 | 17 | +6% |
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, private employers, annual averages. A dash means BLS did not publish the figure.
Frequently asked — commercial painting hiring in Akron.
What is Akron's named healthcare coatings demand center?
Akron Children's Hospital's Considine Building addition, consolidating hospital functions into a purpose-built space - named directly in the metro's own data as the driver of healthcare-facility coatings.
Is commercial painting inexpensive to staff in Akron?
Standard commercial painting runs at a modest regional discount, outside the Akron Children's healthcare-facility niche.
What do painters, construction and maintenance earn in Akron?
BLS puts the Akron median for painters, construction and maintenance at $57,560 a year, 17% above the $49,400 national median. That ranks 17th of 112 metros with published figures, in the top quarter. Most of the market sits between $37,720 and $74,410, a 2.0x gap and a moderate spread, so a few thousand dollars over the median buys real experience. No other Ohio metro we cover pays more for this work.
Is it hard to hire painters, construction and maintenance in Akron?
It is about average. Painters, construction and maintenance are as common in Akron as they are nationally (location quotient 0.99), with about 460 in the metro.
Which commercial painting roles pay the most in Akron?
Of the roles we recruit for, Painting Foreman pays the most in Akron, a $80,660 median (BLS measures that occupation across all industries in the metro). Among field roles the top earner is Commercial Painter at $57,560, 29% below it. Industrial Coatings Sprayer is the lowest-paid field role at $48,900. Relative to national pay, Commercial Painter is the strongest-paying role here (17% above).
How many nonresidential painting contractors operate in Akron?
BLS counted 17 nonresidential painting contractors in Akron in 2023. Up from 16 in 2018, a 6% increase against 4% decline nationally. BLS withholds their combined headcount and pay here, which it does when a category is small enough that the figures could identify individual employers.
Which nearby metros compete with Akron for painters, construction and maintenance?
The closest metros we cover with published figures are Cleveland (30 miles, about 1,110, $49,590 median), Pittsburgh (91 miles, about 1,260, $49,490 median) and Columbus (110 miles, about 980, $51,810 median). Cleveland has the larger pool, so it is the first place to look for senior people willing to move. Akron out-pays Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Columbus, an advantage when recruiting from there.
Hiring commercial painting talent in Akron?
Tell us the role. We'll tell you timeline and where we'd source the candidate - in under 30 minutes.