Carpet Installers in Mississippi
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,208
after federal, FICA and Mississippi tax
Tax takes
$6,382
17.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,606
Mississippi costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Mississippi — 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
$36,590
Kept after tax
$30,208
Worth in national money
$34,606
State rank
43
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for carpet installers is on the low side in Mississippi. The middle earner gets $36,590. That is 43 of 45 states, and about 27.31% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 486 occupations Mississippi publishes, carpet installers lands at 383. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Mississippi is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $36,590 the take-home is $30,208; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $34,606 would nationally. The average comes to $39,910, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For carpet installers, Mississippi sits in the lower band at $36,590, ranking 43 of 45 and trailing the national median by about 27.31%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Mississippi, this work ranks 383 of 486 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.
- Post-tax income for carpet installers in Mississippi, on $36,590, is $30,208 — equivalent to $34,606 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $39,910 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Carpet Installers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $27,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $36,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $56,350 |
| This salary | $36,590 |
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 Mississippi | $30,208 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $31,580 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,108 |
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 | $34,883 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,550 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $36,590 as a midpoint for Mississippi, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $27,550 and the ninetieth is $56,350 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Mississippi's $30,208, worked from $36,590. 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 383 of 486.
- One number stands for prices across all of Mississippi, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $34,606, the adjusted value of that $36,590 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 383 of 486 in the state.
- The Mississippi median of $36,590 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $27,550 to $56,350. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Mississippi take-home of $30,208, on $36,590 for work ranking 383 of 486 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 383 of 486 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Mississippi, so $34,606 — the adjusted value of that $36,590 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 383 of 486 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 $39,910 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $27,550 and the top tenth $56,350 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Mississippi sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $34,606 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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; Mississippi then takes its own share, leaving $30,208.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Mississippi is $39,910. 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 ($27,550) and the ninetieth ($56,350) 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?
Mississippi'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 $34,606 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 $30,208 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Mississippi 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.