Carpet Installers in Ohio
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,087
after federal, FICA and Ohio tax
Tax takes
$9,283
17.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,108
Ohio costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Ohio — 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
$54,370
Kept after tax
$45,087
Worth in national money
$49,108
State rank
17
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Ohio pays carpet installers around $54,370 at the midpoint, 17 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Ohio, this sits in the middle: 269 of 494 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $54,370 you keep $45,087 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $49,108 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $57,750, since top earners drag the number up.
- For carpet installers the Ohio median is $54,370, ranking 17 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.
- Carpet installers ranks 269 of 494 occupations in Ohio 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.
- Retained pay in Ohio is $45,087 after the full tax stack, from $54,370. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $49,108 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $57,750 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Carpet Installers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,920 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $54,370 |
| Top tenth earn over | $74,700 |
| This salary | $54,370 |
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 Ohio | $45,087 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $45,866 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,909 |
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 | $53,401 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,309 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $54,370 as a midpoint for Ohio, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $40,920 and the ninetieth is $74,700 — 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 Ohio's $45,087, worked from $54,370. 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 269 of 494.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $49,108 uses one figure for the whole of Ohio. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 494 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 269.
- The Ohio median of $54,370 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $40,920 to $74,700. 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 Ohio take-home of $45,087, on $54,370 for work ranking 269 of 494 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 269 of 494 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $49,108, worked from $54,370, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Ohio address, on work sitting at 269 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $57,750, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $40,920 at the bottom tenth to $74,700 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $49,108.
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; Ohio then takes its own share, leaving $45,087.
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 Ohio is $57,750. 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 ($40,920 to $74,700) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Ohio rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Ohio'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 $49,108 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 $45,087 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Ohio 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.