Automotive Body and Related Repairers in Montana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,435
after federal, FICA and Montana tax
Tax takes
$11,065
19.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,455
Montana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Montana — 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
$57,500
Kept after tax
$46,435
Worth in national money
$51,455
State rank
16
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Montana pays this job a middle wage of $57,500, ranking 16 of 51 states and sitting about 4.75% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Montana, this sits in the middle: 243 of 475 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Montana is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $57,500 the take-home is $46,435; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $51,455 would nationally. The average lands at $57,420, below the middle of the range.
- Montana's median for automotive body and related repairers is $57,500, about 4.75% above the national figure and 16 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Automotive body and related repairers ranks 243 of 475 occupations in Montana 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.
- Post-tax income for automotive body and related repairers in Montana, on $57,500, is $46,435 — equivalent to $51,455 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $57,420 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Automotive Body and Related Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,830 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $72,850 |
| This salary | $57,500 |
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 Montana | $46,435 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,381 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,668 |
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 | $55,078 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,017 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $57,500 as a midpoint for Montana, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $34,830 and the ninetieth is $72,850 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Montana's $46,435, worked from $57,500. 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 243 of 475.
- One number stands for prices across all of Montana, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $51,455, the adjusted value of that $57,500 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 243 of 475 in the state.
- The Montana median of $57,500 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $34,830 to $72,850. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Montana take-home of $46,435, on $57,500 for work ranking 243 of 475 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 243 of 475 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Montana, so $51,455 — the adjusted value of that $57,500 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 243 of 475 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $34,830 at the tenth percentile, $72,850 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Montana is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $51,455 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Montana then takes its own share, leaving $46,435.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,830 to $72,850) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Montana rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Montana'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 $51,455 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 $46,435 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Montana 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.