Program Payoff

Building/Construction Finishing, Management, and Inspection programs in Virginia

4 schools in Virginia teach this, at certificate or associate level. 1 of them reports what graduates earn two years out; the highest is $23,649 at Tidewater Tech-Trades.

What this work pays in Virginia

Maintenance and Repair Workers, General in Virginia earn a median of $49,470 a year across 34,540 jobs. That is what the occupation pays everyone in it — not what graduates of any one program below earned.

Also leads toMedianJobs in Virginia
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers$78,64024,970
Construction and Building Inspectors$75,6606,550
Painters, Construction and Maintenance$47,4705,930
First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers$48,6605,900
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers$50,9304,020

Occupation wages: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, 2025.

Schools

SchoolCredentialMedian debtGraduate earnings, 2 yrsGraduates
Tidewater Tech-Trades Norfolk Undergraduate certificate $9,500 $23,649 (64 grads) 80
Centura College-Chesapeake Chesapeake Undergraduate certificate not published
Centura College-Newport News Newport News Undergraduate certificate not published 0
Northern Virginia Community College Annandale Undergraduate certificate not published

A dash under earnings or debt means the U.S. Department of Education has not published a figure for that program — it withholds any median computed from too few graduates, which covers about four of every five programs. It never means zero, and it says nothing about whether the program is any good. Where a figure is shown, the number of graduates behind it is shown with it.

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Program and outcome figures: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, released 2026-06-10.