Diablo Valley College
Building/Construction Finishing, Management, and Inspection
Pleasant Hill, California · Public · SOC 47-2141
As published · retrieved 2026-08-26
What the record says
- Net price, per year
- $8,312
- Published tuition
- $1,312 in-state · $10,320 out
- Median debt at completion
- $10,021
- Completion rate
- 49%
- Earnings, 10 years after starting
- $51,378
- Credential
- Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma
Average paid after grant aid, across all first-time students at this institution.
Before tools, books, exam fees and living costs.
Federal loans, institution-wide, among students who completed.
Finished within 150% of normal time. Institution-wide, all programs.
Institution-wide and measured from entry, so it includes people who never finished. Not specific to this program.
Our estimate · net price only
Four years from now
This is a one-year program. Over four years you would pay $8,312 in net price, and students who complete leave with a median of $10,021 in federal loans.
We do not show what you would earn afterwards, because nobody publishes year-one earnings for a specific program. Guessing it would be the kind of number this site exists to avoid. The California median below is what the job pays across the whole state, for workers at every stage of a career.
The occupation, not this program
What painters earn in California
$59,020median, per year
Half earn more, half less, across all experience levels. National median $49,400.
US Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS · SOC 47-2141 · survey 2025-05 · retrieved 2026-08-26
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