Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers in Pennsylvania
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,545
after federal, FICA and Pennsylvania tax
Tax takes
$8,805
18.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,559
Pennsylvania costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Pennsylvania — 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
$48,350
Kept after tax
$39,545
Worth in national money
$40,559
State rank
19
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Pennsylvania pays this job around $48,350 at the midpoint, 19 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Pennsylvania, this sits in the middle: 327 of 492 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $48,350, tax leaves $39,545, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $40,559 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $51,460, since top earners drag the number up.
- For automotive glass installers and repairers the Pennsylvania median is $48,350, ranking 19 of 45 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Automotive glass installers and repairers ranks 327 of 492 occupations in Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for automotive glass installers and repairers — median $48,350 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $39,545 retained, $40,559 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $51,460 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,500 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,350 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,690 |
| This salary | $48,350 |
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 Pennsylvania | $39,545 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,029 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,663 |
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 | $46,503 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,011 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $48,350 as a midpoint for Pennsylvania, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,500 and the ninetieth is $61,690 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $39,545 take-home in Pennsylvania comes from $48,350. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 327 of 492.
- One number stands for prices across all of Pennsylvania, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $40,559, the adjusted value of that $48,350 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 327 of 492 in the state.
- The Pennsylvania median of $48,350 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,500 to $61,690. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $39,545, from $48,350, assumes a single Pennsylvania filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 327 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 19 of 45 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Pennsylvania, so $40,559 — the adjusted value of that $48,350 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 327 of 492 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 $51,460, 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?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,500 at the tenth percentile, $61,690 at the ninetieth.
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 $40,559.
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; Pennsylvania then takes its own share, leaving $39,545.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Pennsylvania is $51,460. 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 ($36,500 to $61,690) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Pennsylvania rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Pennsylvania'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 $40,559 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 $39,545 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Pennsylvania 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.