Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers
What the pay figures show
- Where are this job paid best? Connecticut, at $63,880. That answer does not survive a pay stub. Take income tax out and Washington is ahead. Then count what things cost locally, and North Dakota wins — the money there behaves like $53,517. Three questions. Three different states.
- The nominal leader for automotive glass installers and repairers is Connecticut at $63,880, but the ordering does not hold through either adjustment. Applying federal, FICA and state income tax moves the top position to Washington; deflating by regional price parity moves it again, to North Dakota at $53,517 in national-average terms. ⚠️ Federal tax is not what does this — it is uniform across states and cannot change a ranking. State income tax reorders first, price level second, and the two act independently.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$47,630
People doing it
20,310
Highest paid
$63,880
CT
Best off, really
$53,517
ND, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$35,390
Highest tenth
$70,650
Lowest, really
$31,264
GA
States with data
45
National average
$50,430
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.57%
ND, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $31,264 and $53,517. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- Only 20,310 people do this job in the whole country. It is a small field, so the pay figures rest on fewer reports.
- Not every state reports this one. The figures here cover 45 jurisdictions, and the middle wage across them is $47,630. A state you do not see is one with no published number, not one paying nothing. Of those published, Connecticut pays most.
- Wages for automotive glass installers and repairers cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $31,264 to $53,517. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- National employment in automotive glass installers and repairers is 20,310. ⚠️ At this headcount the state-level medians rest on comparatively thin samples, and year-to-year movement in any one state reflects sampling as much as wages.
- BLS publishes an occupational median for automotive glass installers and repairers in 45 jurisdictions, short of the full set. ⚠️ Absence reflects estimate suppression — small samples or disclosure rules — rather than absence of employment, so the state comparison above is over the published subset.
Pay band: Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,390 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,630 |
| Top tenth earn over | $70,650 |
| This salary | $47,630 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers
The national median for this job
$47,630around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $35,390 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $47,630 |
| Top tenth | $70,650 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers, state by state
The national median for this job
45states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Georgia · $36,430 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Connecticut · $63,880 |
| Spread | $27,450 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $46,550 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $47,903 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| ND | $56,280 | $47,401 | $53,517 |
| NC | $60,710 | $49,047 | $52,100 |
| CT | $63,880 | $50,744 | $48,939 |
| WA | $60,630 | $50,896 | $46,882 |
| OH | $50,090 | $41,766 | $45,491 |
| NJ | $61,040 | $49,401 | $45,371 |
| MS | $47,060 | $38,202 | $43,764 |
| AK | $52,260 | $44,171 | $43,426 |
| ID | $48,530 | $39,455 | $43,156 |
| AR | $45,180 | $37,269 | $43,082 |
| WY | $45,970 | $39,117 | $43,058 |
| MA | $58,490 | $46,572 | $43,028 |
| WI | $48,790 | $39,831 | $42,784 |
| MT | $47,090 | $38,560 | $42,729 |
| IA | $45,520 | $37,637 | $42,400 |
| NE | $46,630 | $38,229 | $42,300 |
| MO | $47,060 | $38,718 | $42,194 |
| OR | $57,270 | $43,736 | $41,764 |
| IN | $46,850 | $38,471 | $41,733 |
| NH | $52,000 | $43,962 | $41,731 |
| UT | $49,310 | $39,606 | $41,690 |
| AL | $46,340 | $37,431 | $41,604 |
| KY | $45,980 | $37,633 | $41,598 |
| NV | $47,210 | $40,113 | $41,362 |
| SC | $46,180 | $38,540 | $41,362 |
| TX | $46,550 | $39,583 | $40,734 |
| PA | $48,350 | $39,545 | $40,559 |
| MI | $46,860 | $38,091 | $40,443 |
| FL | $48,800 | $41,391 | $40,010 |
| IL | $48,860 | $39,165 | $39,619 |
| MN | $47,800 | $38,849 | $39,473 |
| ME | $47,270 | $38,291 | $39,436 |
| LA | $41,620 | $34,759 | $39,345 |
| CO | $48,610 | $39,808 | $39,265 |
| OK | $41,350 | $34,044 | $38,562 |
| VA | $47,730 | $38,547 | $38,261 |
| AZ | $45,670 | $38,137 | $37,720 |
| NY | $50,240 | $40,432 | $37,567 |
| MD | $47,350 | $38,340 | $36,878 |
| HI | $49,410 | $39,557 | $36,421 |
| KS | $39,900 | $32,302 | $35,905 |
| TN | $38,420 | $33,050 | $35,724 |
| CA | $47,710 | $39,460 | $35,050 |
| NM | $37,470 | $31,643 | $35,009 |
| GA | $36,430 | $30,232 | $31,264 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of this job earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $47,630.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for this job, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Washington, at $50,896.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for this job. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits Georgia, on $31,264.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for automotive glass installers and repairers, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $47,630, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- Retained-pay figures for automotive glass installers and repairers model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $50,896, which leads in Washington.
- Real-terms results for automotive glass installers and repairers rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; Georgia anchors the distribution at $31,264. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.