Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters in Indiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,465
after federal, FICA and Indiana tax
Tax takes
$8,085
17.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,642
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
$45,550
Kept after tax
$37,465
Worth in national money
$40,642
State rank
39
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Indiana pays this job a middle wage of $45,550, 39 of 49 states and about 2.42% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Indiana reports figures for, this is number 363.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $45,550 you keep $37,465 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $40,642 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $43,630.
- Indiana's $45,550 median for cabinetmakers and bench carpenters places it 39 of 49 states, about 2.42% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- In Indiana's occupational distribution, cabinetmakers and bench carpenters sits at 363 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Retained pay in Indiana is $37,465 after the full tax stack, from $45,550. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $40,642 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $43,630 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $29,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,550 |
| Top tenth earn over | $57,980 |
| This salary | $45,550 |
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 | $37,465 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,779 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$735 |
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 | $43,914 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$889 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $45,550 as a midpoint for Indiana, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $29,700 and the ninetieth is $57,980 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $37,465 take-home in Indiana comes from $45,550. 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 363 of 493.
- Two cautions on $40,642, the adjusted value of that $45,550 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 363 of 493 locally.
- The Indiana median of $45,550 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $29,700 to $57,980. 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 $37,465, from $45,550, assumes a single Indiana 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 363 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 39 of 49 for it.
- This $40,642 adjusted figure, worked from $45,550, 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 363 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 363 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 $43,630 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $29,700 at the tenth percentile, $57,980 at the ninetieth.
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 $40,642 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, $37,465 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 $43,630. 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 ($29,700 to $57,980) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Indiana rather than a national figure.
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 $40,642 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 $37,465 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.