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Austin labour reference, carried on every line: Painters, Construction and Maintenance (SOC 47-2141) in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area (area 12420) — mean wage $46,990.00 a year (May 2025), $22.59 an hour, $30.50 an hour burdened. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, via the BLS Public Data API, retrieved Nov 12, 2026.

• Every unitPrice is either (a) the midpoint of a published per-unit range, or (b) built from a published rate times a stated quantity. Nothing is copied from the old seed file.
• Rule used throughout: where two independent published guides cover the same unit, unitPrice is the mean of the two published midpoints and the line is labelled assembled_estimate when the guides differ by more than 50 percent. Where only one guide covers the unit, unitPrice is that guide's midpoint and the line is labelled published_rate.
• All published per-unit guides found are national figures, not Austin-specific. Austin-specific per-unit published rates were not obtainable: Home Depot, Lowe's, Sherwin-Williams product pricing, Angi and HomeGuide all refused this machine (HTTP 403 or no pricing without a store account). Homewyse's ZIP selector is JavaScript-only and did not return Austin figures. The Austin labour reference below is real Austin data and is carried on every line.
• Where a line is built rather than quoted, the derivation string on that line shows the arithmetic and names which input is an assumption rather than a published figure. Assumptions are the labour-hours-per-unit and the coat/adjustment multipliers; they are flagged as such.
• No published estimating guide (RSMeans, Craftsman) was reachable without a paid subscription, so productivity rates in the derived lines are stated assumptions, not published rates. This is the weakest part of the book and is flagged on those lines.