Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
What the pay figures show
- Rhode Island comes first for this job on every measure. $62,350 on paper. Still first after tax. Still first at $49,659 once you adjust for what things cost. When the headline and the reality agree, say so plainly.
- For coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers, Rhode Island's $62,350 median is the highest nominally, after tax, and after regional price adjustment, at $49,659. Concordance across all three measures is uncommon and worth stating explicitly, because the absence of a reordering is itself the finding for this occupation.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$47,450
People doing it
26,410
Highest paid
$62,350
RI
Best off, really
$49,659
RI, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$34,320
Highest tenth
$66,370
Lowest, really
$35,230
OH
States with data
48
National average
$49,770
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
101.41%
RI, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $35,230 and $49,659. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- Only 26,410 people do this job in the whole country. It is a small field, so the pay figures rest on fewer reports.
- Some states are missing here. There are figures for 48 jurisdictions, averaging $47,450 in the middle. A blank means nobody published a number, not that the job pays nothing there. Rhode Island leads the published set.
- Wages for coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $35,230 to $49,659. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- National employment in coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers is 26,410. ⚠️ At this headcount the state-level medians rest on comparatively thin samples, and year-to-year movement in any one state reflects sampling as much as wages.
- Coverage for coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers runs to 48 jurisdictions, short of the full set. The omitted states are suppressed at source; treat the spread above as the range across reported states rather than across the country.
Pay band: Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,320 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,450 |
| Top tenth earn over | $66,370 |
| This salary | $47,450 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
The national median for this job
$47,450around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $34,320 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $47,450 |
| Top tenth | $66,370 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers, state by state
The national median for this job
48states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Ohio · $37,950 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Rhode Island · $62,350 |
| Spread | $24,400 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $49,960 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $51,412 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| RI | $62,350 | $50,360 | $49,659 |
| TN | $53,270 | $44,982 | $48,622 |
| ND | $48,870 | $41,447 | $46,795 |
| AZ | $56,450 | $46,529 | $46,020 |
| WA | $58,750 | $49,386 | $45,491 |
| NV | $51,210 | $43,327 | $44,676 |
| AR | $46,940 | $38,618 | $44,641 |
| NJ | $59,770 | $48,451 | $44,498 |
| OK | $48,160 | $39,210 | $44,412 |
| NY | $60,010 | $47,754 | $44,371 |
| LA | $46,770 | $38,743 | $43,854 |
| WI | $50,050 | $40,781 | $43,805 |
| TX | $49,960 | $42,323 | $43,553 |
| AK | $52,040 | $43,994 | $43,252 |
| MT | $47,670 | $38,999 | $43,215 |
| NE | $47,520 | $38,904 | $43,046 |
| IA | $45,740 | $37,806 | $42,590 |
| SD | $43,860 | $37,422 | $42,479 |
| WY | $45,190 | $38,490 | $42,368 |
| SC | $47,120 | $39,232 | $42,105 |
| OR | $56,100 | $42,898 | $40,964 |
| MN | $49,570 | $40,162 | $40,808 |
| KS | $45,750 | $36,676 | $40,767 |
| MI | $46,980 | $38,183 | $40,540 |
| NM | $43,860 | $36,503 | $40,385 |
| NC | $46,010 | $37,822 | $40,177 |
| MA | $54,380 | $43,475 | $40,166 |
| MO | $44,220 | $36,570 | $39,853 |
| FL | $48,430 | $41,094 | $39,722 |
| IN | $44,280 | $36,482 | $39,575 |
| UT | $46,570 | $37,527 | $39,501 |
| ME | $47,160 | $38,210 | $39,352 |
| NH | $48,710 | $41,318 | $39,222 |
| DE | $48,350 | $38,913 | $39,206 |
| PA | $46,600 | $38,192 | $39,172 |
| CT | $50,120 | $40,445 | $39,006 |
| ID | $43,230 | $35,477 | $38,805 |
| MD | $49,860 | $40,238 | $38,703 |
| MS | $41,040 | $33,606 | $38,498 |
| KY | $42,150 | $34,690 | $38,345 |
| GA | $45,360 | $36,962 | $38,224 |
| CA | $51,870 | $42,553 | $37,798 |
| IL | $45,560 | $36,677 | $37,102 |
| CO | $45,600 | $37,522 | $37,010 |
| AL | $40,670 | $33,125 | $36,818 |
| VA | $44,720 | $36,302 | $36,032 |
| WV | $38,190 | $31,880 | $35,512 |
| OH | $37,950 | $32,346 | $35,230 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of this job earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $47,450.
- Take-home figures for this job assume one person filing alone, with no dependants and nothing going into a pension before tax. Any of those lowers the tax and raises what you keep, so treat these as the plain case rather than your case. Local city income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those matter. In Rhode Island, the best state after tax, the figure works out at $50,360.
- Levelling out prices for this job is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Ohio sits at the bottom on $35,230.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $47,450, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- Take-home calculations for coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers assume a single filer with no dependants, the standard deduction, and no pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figures function as a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape; the highest such figure is $50,360, in Rhode Island. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of a few other states.
- The price deflation applied to coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Ohio at $35,230. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Ohio anchors the bottom at $35,230 — and the two source series are dated independently.