Audio and Video Technicians in New York
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,333
after federal, FICA and New York tax
Tax takes
$14,267
21.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,554
New York costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New York — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$67,600
Kept after tax
$53,333
Worth in national money
$49,554
State rank
5
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New York pays audio and video technicians a middle wage of $67,600, ranking 5 of 49 states and sitting about 16.35% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Audio and video technicians ranks 246 among 493 occupations New York publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $67,600, tax leaves $53,333 — and because New York is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $49,554 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $75,760, since top earners drag the number up.
- New York's median for audio and video technicians is $67,600, about 16.35% above the national figure and 5 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 246 of 493 in New York places audio and video technicians in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $53,333 remains from the New York median of $67,600 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $49,554 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $75,760 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Audio and Video Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,620 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $67,600 |
| Top tenth earn over | $115,010 |
| This salary | $67,600 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in New York | $53,333 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $56,387 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,472 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $63,663 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,382 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $67,600 as a midpoint for New York, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $42,620 and the ninetieth is $115,010 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New York the take-home figure of $53,333, from $67,600, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 246 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $49,554, the adjusted value of that $67,600 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New York. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 246 of 493 locally.
- The New York median of $67,600 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $42,620 to $115,010. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for New York is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $53,333 from $67,600. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 246 of 493 locally.
- This $49,554 adjusted figure, worked from $67,600, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 246 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 246 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $75,760 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $42,620 and the top tenth $115,010 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New York costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $49,554 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and New York's own levy, $53,333 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in New York is $75,760. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($42,620) and the ninetieth ($115,010) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New York's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $49,554 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $53,333 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New York income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.