Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers in Arizona
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,529
after federal, FICA and Arizona tax
Tax takes
$9,921
17.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,020
Arizona costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arizona — 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
$56,450
Kept after tax
$46,529
Worth in national money
$46,020
State rank
5
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Arizona's middle earner gets $56,450, putting the state 5 of 48 — about 18.97% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Arizona, this sits in the middle: 261 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $56,450 the take-home is $46,529, which is worth about $46,020 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $51,220, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers, Arizona sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $56,450, ranking 5 of 48 and running about 18.97% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers ranks 261 of 491 occupations in Arizona 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.
- Arizona's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers on its $56,450 median: $46,529 retained after tax becomes $46,020 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $51,220 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,430 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,450 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,830 |
| This salary | $56,450 |
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 Arizona | $46,529 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,538 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,899 |
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 | $55,195 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,506 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $56,450 as a midpoint for Arizona, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $34,430 and the ninetieth is $62,830 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $46,529 take-home in Arizona comes from $56,450. 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 261 of 491.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $46,020 uses one figure for the whole of Arizona. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 491 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 261.
- The Arizona median of $56,450 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $34,430 to $62,830. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $46,529, from $56,450, assumes a single Arizona 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 261 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 5 of 48 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $46,020, worked from $56,450, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Arizona address, on work sitting at 261 of 491 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 $51,220 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $34,430 at the bottom tenth to $62,830 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $46,020 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 Arizona's own levy, $46,529 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 Arizona is $51,220. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,430 to $62,830) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Arizona rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Arizona's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $46,020 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 $46,529 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arizona 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.