Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,784
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$8,666
18.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,073
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$46,450
Kept after tax
$37,784
Worth in national money
$39,073
State rank
41
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Georgia pays this job a middle wage of $46,450, 41 of 50 states and about 3.73% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Georgia, this sits in the middle: 339 of 492 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Georgia does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $46,450 you keep $37,784, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $39,073 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $50,940, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Georgia's $46,450 median for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders places it 41 of 50 states, about 3.73% 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.
- Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders ranks 339 of 492 occupations in Georgia 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.
- After federal, FICA and Georgia income tax, retained pay for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders on $46,450 is $37,784. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $39,073 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $50,940 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,530 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,450 |
| Top tenth earn over | $69,970 |
| This salary | $46,450 |
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 Georgia | $37,784 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,503 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,578 |
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 | $44,311 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,908 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
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 coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders in Georgia earn under $46,450 and half over. The published range runs $35,530 at the tenth percentile to $69,970 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $37,784 take-home in Georgia comes from $46,450. 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 339 of 492.
- One number stands for prices across all of Georgia, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $39,073, the adjusted value of that $46,450 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 339 of 492 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders in Georgia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,530 to $69,970; 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.
- Retained pay of $37,784, from $46,450, assumes a single Georgia 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 339 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 41 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Georgia, so $39,073 — the adjusted value of that $46,450 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 339 of 492 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 $50,940 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $35,530, the highest tenth $69,970, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Georgia is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $39,073 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 Georgia's own levy, $37,784 remains.
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 50 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 Georgia is $50,940. 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 ($35,530) and the ninetieth ($69,970) 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?
Georgia'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 $39,073 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 $37,784 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.