Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,511
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$9,639
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,979
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$60,150
Kept after tax
$50,511
Worth in national money
$51,979
State rank
16
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Texas pays this job around $60,150 at the midpoint, 16 of 47 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 212 among 493 occupations Texas publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $60,150, tax leaves $50,511, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $51,979 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $68,970, since top earners drag the number up.
- For chemical equipment operators and tenders the Texas median is $60,150, ranking 16 of 47 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.
- Position 212 of 493 in Texas places chemical equipment operators and tenders in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for chemical equipment operators and tenders — median $60,150 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $50,511 retained, $51,979 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $68,970 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,230 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $106,230 |
| This salary | $60,150 |
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 Texas | $50,511 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $50,511 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,154 |
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 | $60,150 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,061 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $60,150 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,230 and the ninetieth is $106,230 — 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 Texas's $50,511, worked from $60,150. 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 212 of 493.
- Two cautions on $51,979, the adjusted value of that $60,150 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 212 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $60,150 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,230 to $106,230. 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 Texas take-home of $50,511, on $60,150 for work ranking 212 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 212 of 493 in the state.
- This $51,979 adjusted figure, worked from $60,150, 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 212 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 212 of 493 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 $68,970, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $36,230 and the top tenth $106,230 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Texas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $51,979 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $50,511 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 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 Texas is $68,970. 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 ($36,230) and the ninetieth ($106,230) 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?
Texas'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 $51,979 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $50,511 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.