Furniture and Kitchen Fitter
🪑Visits customers to fit kitchens, wardrobes and beds: adjusts, drills, hangs and levels. A good kitchen fitter keeps clients for years.
Prospects & pay
What the work is like
💼 Job market
🇺🇸 $54.3k a year on average · +3.9% jobs by 2035 · 62,800 openings a year
Carpenters — US: Census ACS 2020–24 (full-time), BLS projections 2025–35
🇬🇧 £34k median a year · 51,000 jobs
Carpenters and joiners — UK: ONS ASHE 2025 (full-time)
🤖 AI & automation
Robots won't be assembling furniture in someone's home any time soon. The job is stable, but the income ceiling is your own crew or furniture business.
Who it suits
Interests: 🔧 Making things by hand, 🏗️ Building and spaces, 🤝 Helping and caring.
Key strengths: manual dexterity, strength and stamina.
Where to study
- Course On-the-job training with an experienced fitter; kitchen fitting courses
- Apprenticeship Carpentry and joinery apprenticeship (UK, Level 2–3)
- Vocational Ausbildung Tischler / Schreiner (DE)
Key school subjects (A-level / IB / AP): Maths.
🧗 Learn on the job from an experienced fitter. To grow, take a carpentry and joinery apprenticeship (UK) or a Tischler Ausbildung in Germany; then you can take complex jobs and go self-employed.
Things to know
🧳 Frequent work trips
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