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Painting contractors in Salinas, CA

The Salinas, CA metro area has 51 painting contractors, or 1.18 per 10,000 residents.

What painting work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national painting page. California publishes a business-level licence source for painting, and the California page lists which classes count.

The facts

Painting contractors in this metro
51
Per 10,000 residents
1.18 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
2
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
35.3%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. California licenses the business itself, so the share is measured against business-level records. About 47% of California licensees are sole owners, whose published address is frequently a home.
Active licenses with no public listing
193
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
27
Employment and pay for this trade
Not published for this trade
Independent, franchise, corporate
50 independent, 1 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.96% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 430,723, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. State license files, as of September 2, 2026.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about painting in Salinas

By record count, painting is the seventh largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Salinas, behind cleaning and ahead of HVAC. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Salinas.

Per resident, Salinas sits close to the California rate for painting, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Salinas's painting records is close to the California figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

More of Salinas's painting records carry no street address than across California.

A far larger share of Salinas's painting records link to an active state licence than the California figure for the same trade. That measures how well two files join in Salinas, not whether the businesses in either one hold a licence.

Almost every Salinas painting record sits inside California, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

More painting licences lapsed in Salinas over the last twelve months than were issued. A lapse is a licence that stopped being current, not a business that stopped trading. Both figures come from the state's own status field.

More active California licences covering painting in Salinas have no matching record in open place data than this page lists records at all, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

No Bureau of Labor Statistics occupation maps to painting cleanly enough to print, so Salinas carries no employment or wage figure for this trade rather than one built from an occupation that means something else.

Of the Salinas painting records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

No Salinas painting record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

More painting records first appeared in Salinas over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Salinas differs from the metro enough on painting to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 19 California metro areas this site publishes a painting page for, Salinas is 9th of 19 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a painting page for rather than every metro area in California.

Ordered by painting records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a painting page for, the hubs either side of Salinas are Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent above it and Asheville below it.

Painting contractors, A to Z

51 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.

Other trades in Salinas

Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Salinas, so it is answered on the overview above instead.