Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons
Help painters, paperhangers, plasterers, or stucco masons by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.
7,490 people do this job in the US. $40,470 a year.
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Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 0%. Today's estimate: 0%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 11 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perform support duties to assist painters, paperhangers, plasterers, or masons.Done daily by most who do it. | 20% | 50 min13 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Erect scaffolding.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 16% | 1.7 h25 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Smooth surfaces of articles to be painted, using sanding and buffing tools and equipment.Done more than weekly by most who do it. | 15% | 50 min17 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Clean work areas and equipment.Done daily by most who do it. | 13% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Supply or hold tools and materials.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 12% | 17 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Fill cracks or breaks in surfaces of plaster articles or areas with putty or epoxy compounds.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 9% | 33 min13 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Apply protective coverings, such as masking tape, to articles or areas that could be damaged or stained by work processes.Done daily by most who do it. | 7% | 25 min8 min to 1.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Mix plaster, and carry plaster to plasterers.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 4% | 25 min13 min to 1.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Remove articles such as cabinets, metal furniture, and paint containers from stripping tanks after prescribed periods of time.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 2% | 17 min8 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Place articles to be stripped into stripping tanks.Done yearly or less by most who do it. | 1% | 17 min4 min to 38 min | Stays with people | |
| Pour specified amounts of chemical solutions into stripping tanks.Done more than monthly by most who do it. | 0.9% | 13 min8 min to 38 min | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters6% now, 6% by 2028
- Helpers--Carpenters0% now, 0% by 2028
- Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters0% now, 0% by 2028
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons2% now, 2% by 2028
- Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers2% now, 2% by 2028
- Painters, Construction and Maintenance4% now, 4% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).