Kansas City, MO · Painters

Painters in Kansas City, by the numbers.

The Census Bureau counted 279 painting and wall covering contractors in the Kansas City, MO-KS Metro Area in 2023, employing 1,404 people with $73.9 million in annual payroll.

The local market.

Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. Figures cover the whole metro area.

Businesses

279

27th most of 378 US metro areas

People employed

1,404

5.0 per business, against 5.4 across all metros

Annual payroll

$73.9 million

$52,610 per employee

Fewer than 10 employees

89%

of businesses, against 88% across all metros

Change since 2022

-0.7%

in the number of businesses (281 in 2022)

What the numbers say about Kansas City.

  • Kansas City is in the top tenth of US metro areas by number of painting and wall covering contractors, 27th of 378.
  • A typical business here is about the national size, with 5.0 employees.
  • The number of businesses held about steady since 2022.

How VERA helps painters in Kansas City.

The same product everywhere. It prepares the work and waits for your approval before anything goes out.

Room-by-room estimates

Price walls, ceilings, trim, doors, and cabinets from your own rates. Coats, primer, and patching are their own lines, so the client sees what they are paying for.

Color schedules clients confirm

VERA drafts the color and sheen list for each job and keeps reminding the client until it is confirmed, before you order paint.

A crew calendar that holds

Assign crews to jobs, spot overlaps, and move a start date in one instruction. VERA drafts the client's notice when anything changes.

Questions

Painters in Kansas City

How many painting and wall covering contractors are there in Kansas City?

279 in the Kansas City, MO-KS Metro Area, according to the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns for 2023. Together they employed 1,404 people and paid $73.9 million in annual payroll.

Is the Kansas City market for painters growing?

By number of businesses it held about steady between 2022 and 2023: from 281 to 279 (-0.7%).

What does VERA do for painters in Kansas City?

VERA drafts the quotes, invoices, follow-ups and customer messages a Kansas City business runs on, and waits for the owner's approval before anything goes out. It is the same software everywhere; this page adds the local numbers.

Painters in other markets

Other Kansas City markets

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 and 2022, metropolitan statistical areas. The Bureau adds a small amount of noise to these figures to protect individual businesses. The category counted is painting and wall covering contractors, which can be broader or narrower than the trade itself. About the data.

See what VERA can do for your business.

Try it with the built-in demo data, no credit card, no API keys. VERA proposes the work and waits for your approval before it acts.