Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,744
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$7,006
15.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,899
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
$46,750
Kept after tax
$39,744
Worth in national money
$40,899
State rank
39
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $46,750. That is 39 of 50 states, and about 3.11% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Texas reports figures for, this is number 318.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $46,750, tax leaves $39,744, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $40,899 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $51,240, since top earners drag the number up.
- For coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders, Texas sits in the lower band at $46,750, ranking 39 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 3.11%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- In Texas's occupational distribution, coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders sits at 318 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders — median $46,750 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $39,744 retained, $40,899 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $51,240 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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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 | $33,790 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,750 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,560 |
| This salary | $46,750 |
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 | $39,744 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $39,744 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,482 |
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 | $46,750 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,195 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 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 Texas earn under $46,750 and half over. The published range runs $33,790 at the tenth percentile to $78,560 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $39,744 take-home in Texas comes from $46,750. 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 318 of 493.
- Two cautions on $40,899, the adjusted value of that $46,750 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 318 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,790 to $78,560; 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 $39,744, from $46,750, assumes a single Texas 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 318 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 39 of 50 for it.
- This $40,899 adjusted figure, worked from $46,750, 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 318 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 318 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $51,240, 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 $33,790 at the bottom tenth to $78,560 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $40,899.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $39,744 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 50 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 $51,240. 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 ($33,790) and the ninetieth ($78,560) 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 $40,899 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 $39,744 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.