Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$56,176
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$11,124
16.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,745
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$67,300
Kept after tax
$56,176
Worth in national money
$51,745
State rank
7
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Washington is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $67,300, which ranks 7 of 47 states with published figures. That is about 15.95% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Washington, this sits in the middle: 261 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Washington is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $67,300 the take-home is $56,176; in national-average money that behaves like $51,745. The average comes to $68,000, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Washington ranks 7 of 47 states publishing a median for chemical equipment operators and tenders, at $67,300 — about 15.95% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Chemical equipment operators and tenders ranks 261 of 493 occupations in Washington 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.
- Take-home for chemical equipment operators and tenders in Washington, on $67,300, is $56,176; deflated by the state's price level, $51,745. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $68,000 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,420 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $67,300 |
| Top tenth earn over | $97,130 |
| This salary | $67,300 |
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 Washington | $56,176 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $56,176 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,064 |
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 | $67,300 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,433 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
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 chemical equipment operators and tenders in Washington earn under $67,300 and half over. The published range runs $46,420 at the tenth percentile to $97,130 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 Washington's $56,176, worked from $67,300. 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 261 of 493.
- Two cautions on $51,745, the adjusted value of that $67,300 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. 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 261 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for chemical equipment operators and tenders in Washington, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $46,420 to $97,130; 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 Washington take-home of $56,176, on $67,300 for work ranking 261 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 261 of 493 in the state.
- This $51,745 adjusted figure, worked from $67,300, 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 261 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 261 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $46,420, the highest tenth $97,130, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Washington costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $51,745 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $56,176 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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($46,420) and the ninetieth ($97,130) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $51,745 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $56,176 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.