Automotive Body and Related Repairers in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,528
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$14,962
20.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,727
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$72,490
Kept after tax
$57,528
Worth in national money
$56,727
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Rhode Island pays this job a middle wage of $72,490, ranking 1 of 51 states and sitting about 32.06% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Rhode Island, this sits in the middle: 191 of 452 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $72,490, tax leaves $57,528, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $56,727 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $66,140.
- Rhode Island's median for automotive body and related repairers is $72,490, about 32.06% above the national figure and 1 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 191 of 452 occupations in Rhode Island 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.
- Because Rhode Island sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for automotive body and related repairers — median $72,490 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $57,528 retained, $56,727 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $66,140 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Automotive Body and Related Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,820 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $72,490 |
| Top tenth earn over | $93,600 |
| This salary | $72,490 |
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 Rhode Island | $57,528 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $59,827 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,839 |
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 | $69,223 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,597 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
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 Rhode Island earn under $72,490 and half over. The published range runs $46,820 at the tenth percentile to $93,600 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Rhode Island the take-home figure of $57,528, from $72,490, 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 191 of 452 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $56,727 uses one figure for the whole of Rhode Island. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 452 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 191.
- Figures are distribution medians for automotive body and related repairers in Rhode Island, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $46,820 to $93,600; 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.
- Take-home for Rhode Island is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $57,528 from $72,490. 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 191 of 452 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $56,727, worked from $72,490, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Rhode Island address, on work sitting at 191 of 452 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 $66,140, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $46,820 and the top tenth $93,600, so most people doing this work in Rhode Island sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Rhode Island run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $56,727 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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 Rhode Island's own levy, $57,528 remains.
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 Rhode Island is $66,140. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($46,820 to $93,600) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Rhode Island rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $56,727 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 $57,528 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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.