Wax Sculptor
Median salary, education path, job outlook, and related careers — based on U.S. labor data.
Median salary
$55,000/yr
Typical range
$38,000 – $74,000
Education
Bachelor's degree
Time to entry
About 4 years
What a Wax Sculptor does
Creates hyper-realistic portrait and figurative sculptures in wax for museums such as Madame Tussauds, using calipers, reference photography, and painstaking surface texturing to achieve lifelike replicas.
Education & path
The typical entry point is a bachelor's degree. About 4 years.
Estimated cost of that path: ~$40,000. Estimated payback: ~4 years. Estimates only — actual cost varies widely by school and financial aid; payback assumes ~20% of income applied.
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