Broadcast Technicians in Indiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,575
after federal, FICA and Indiana tax
Tax takes
$7,825
17.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,676
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
$44,400
Kept after tax
$36,575
Worth in national money
$39,676
State rank
37
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for broadcast technicians is on the low side in Indiana. The middle earner gets $44,400. That is 37 of 47 states, and about 25.47% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Indiana publishes, broadcast technicians lands at 379. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Here is where Indiana does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $44,400 you keep $36,575, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $39,676 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $49,060, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For broadcast technicians, Indiana sits in the lower band at $44,400, ranking 37 of 47 and trailing the national median by about 25.47%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Indiana, this work ranks 379 of 493 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- After federal, FICA and Indiana income tax, retained pay for broadcast technicians on $44,400 is $36,575. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $39,676 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 $49,060 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Broadcast Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,410 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $44,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $74,260 |
| This salary | $44,400 |
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 | $36,575 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $37,855 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$720 |
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 | $42,807 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$871 |
| 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 broadcast technicians in Indiana earn under $44,400 and half over. The published range runs $35,410 at the tenth percentile to $74,260 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 $36,575, worked from $44,400. 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 379 of 493.
- Two cautions on $39,676, the adjusted value of that $44,400 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Indiana. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 379 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for broadcast technicians in Indiana, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,410 to $74,260; 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 $36,575, on $44,400 for work ranking 379 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 379 of 493 in the state.
- This $39,676 adjusted figure, worked from $44,400, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 379 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 379 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $49,060 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $35,410, the highest tenth $74,260, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Indiana is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $39,676 in national terms.
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 Indiana's own levy, $36,575 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $49,060. 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 ($35,410) and the ninetieth ($74,260) 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 $39,676 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 $36,575 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.
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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.