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Painting & Finishing jobs in San Francisco

29 permits that need painters and finishers were pulled in San Francisco, California over the 8 days to August 14. That is roughly 25 a week. The permit office files most of it as addition/alteration. Where a value is published, the median job is $15k and the largest was $2M.

29
permits pulled
25
new per week
$15k
median job value
Aug 14, 2026
most recent
Counts cover the 8 days to August 14.

Live right now in San Francisco

29 open
Just pulled a permit

Employer not named on record

$1
San FranciscoPermit pulled Aug 14, 2026Addition/Alteration

Likely scope, estimated

General Contracting
Painting & Finishing

Addition/Alteration permit at 280 Gold Mine Dr, San Francisco. General Contracting, Painting & Finishing trade work.

Just pulled a permit

Employer not named on record

$35K
San FranciscoPermit pulled Aug 14, 2026Addition/Alteration

Likely scope, estimated

General Contracting
Concrete & Forming
Painting & Finishing
Demolition

Addition/Alteration permit at 111 Jones St, San Francisco. General Contracting, Concrete & Forming, Painting & Finishing trade work estimated at $35,000 USD.

Just pulled a permit

Employer not named on record

$2.0M
San FranciscoPermit pulled Aug 14, 2026Addition/Alteration

Likely scope, estimated

Electrical
General Contracting
Glazing
Painting & Finishing

Addition/Alteration permit at 33 Robinhood Dr, San Francisco. Electrical, General Contracting, Glazing trade work estimated at $2,000,000 USD.

Just pulled a permit

Employer not named on record

$7K
San FranciscoPermit pulled Aug 14, 2026Addition/Alteration

Likely scope, estimated

Roofing
General Contracting
Painting & Finishing
Masonry

Addition/Alteration permit at 195 Graystone Tr, San Francisco. Roofing, General Contracting, Painting & Finishing trade work estimated at $6,800 USD.

What the work actually is

How City and County of San Francisco (DBI) classified the 29 permits that name painting and finishing.

Addition/Alteration
29(100%)

What is being built

The structure types behind the painting and finishing work. This is the fastest way to tell whether the volume in San Francisco is your kind of job.

Commercial
1(100%)

How to work this list

  • A pulled permit means the money is committed and the schedule is being built. For painters and finishers that is weeks to months of warning before the call goes out.
  • Split the list. Housing permits you chase this week and win on being reachable; commercial ones you chase by finding the general contractor and getting on the bid list.
  • Track the ones you contact somewhere that will remind you, because the trade call on most of these lands one to four months after the permit is issued.

Painting & Finishing work in other markets

Other trades hiring in San Francisco

Where this comes from. Open permit records published by City and County of San Francisco (DBI). AEC Stack reads them daily, classifies the trades each job will need, and drops the jobs too large for a small contractor to bid.

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Get qualified for this work

The licensing and certification route for painters and finishers, and who employs them.