Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,101
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$11,299
22.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,383
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$49,400
Kept after tax
$38,101
Worth in national money
$36,383
State rank
17
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Oregon pays this job around $49,400 at the midpoint, 17 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 489 occupations Oregon publishes, this job lands at 373. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $49,400 the take-home is $38,101. But Oregon costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $36,383 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $56,290, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders the Oregon median is $49,400, ranking 17 of 50 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.
- Within Oregon, this work ranks 373 of 489 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and Oregon income tax is $38,101 for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders, from $49,400. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $36,383. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $56,290 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 | $40,280 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,920 |
| This salary | $49,400 |
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 Oregon | $38,101 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,873 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,707 |
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 | $44,705 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,112 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
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 Oregon earn under $49,400 and half over. The published range runs $40,280 at the tenth percentile to $75,920 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $38,101 take-home in Oregon comes from $49,400. 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 373 of 489.
- One number stands for prices across all of Oregon, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $36,383, the adjusted value of that $49,400 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 373 of 489 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders in Oregon, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $40,280 to $75,920; 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 $38,101, from $49,400, assumes a single Oregon 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 373 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 17 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Oregon, so $36,383 — the adjusted value of that $49,400 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 373 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $56,290, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $40,280 at the bottom tenth to $75,920 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $36,383 of national purchasing power.
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 Oregon's own levy, $38,101 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 Oregon is $56,290. 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 ($40,280) and the ninetieth ($75,920) 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?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $36,383 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $38,101 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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.