Automotive Body and Related Repairers in Indiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,807
after federal, FICA and Indiana tax
Tax takes
$9,353
18.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,352
Indiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Indiana — 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
$51,160
Kept after tax
$41,807
Worth in national money
$45,352
State rank
30
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Indiana sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $51,160, ranking 30 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Indiana, this sits in the middle: 274 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Indiana does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $51,160 you keep $41,807, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $45,352 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $58,010, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Indiana occupies the middle band for automotive body and related repairers: a median of $51,160, ranking 30 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Automotive body and related repairers ranks 274 of 493 occupations in Indiana by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After federal, FICA and Indiana income tax, retained pay for automotive body and related repairers on $51,160 is $41,807. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $45,352 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $58,010 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Automotive Body and Related Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,610 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,160 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,290 |
| This salary | $51,160 |
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 Indiana | $41,807 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,287 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$807 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
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 | $49,318 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$975 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of automotive body and related repairers in Indiana earn under $51,160 and half over. The published range runs $36,610 at the tenth percentile to $82,290 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Indiana's $41,807, worked from $51,160. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 274 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Indiana, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $45,352, the adjusted value of that $51,160 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 274 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for automotive body and related repairers in Indiana, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,610 to $82,290; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Indiana take-home of $41,807, on $51,160 for work ranking 274 of 493 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 274 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Indiana, so $45,352 — the adjusted value of that $51,160 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 274 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $58,010, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $36,610, the highest tenth $82,290, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $45,352.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Indiana adds its own income tax on top — which is why $41,807 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 Indiana is $58,010. 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 ($36,610) and the ninetieth ($82,290) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Indiana's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $45,352 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $41,807 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Indiana 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.