Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,962
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$8,398
18.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,224
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
$45,360
Kept after tax
$36,962
Worth in national money
$38,224
State rank
36
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Georgia pays this job a middle wage of $45,360, 36 of 48 states and about 4.4% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 357 among 492 occupations Georgia publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $45,360 you keep $36,962 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $38,224 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $47,720, since top earners drag the number up.
- Georgia's $45,360 median for coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers places it 36 of 48 states, about 4.4% 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.
- Position 357 of 492 in Georgia places coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in Georgia is $36,962 after the full tax stack, from $45,360. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $38,224 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $47,720 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,360 |
| Top tenth earn over | $66,050 |
| This salary | $45,360 |
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 | $36,962 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,627 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,526 |
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 | $43,288 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,845 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $45,360 as a midpoint for Georgia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,200 and the ninetieth is $66,050 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $36,962 take-home in Georgia comes from $45,360. 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 357 of 492.
- One number stands for prices across all of Georgia, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $38,224, the adjusted value of that $45,360 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 357 of 492 in the state.
- The Georgia median of $45,360 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,200 to $66,050. 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 $36,962, from $45,360, 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 357 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 36 of 48 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Georgia, so $38,224 — the adjusted value of that $45,360 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 357 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $47,720, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $37,200 at the bottom tenth to $66,050 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $38,224 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, $36,962 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 Georgia is $47,720. 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 ($37,200 to $66,050) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Georgia rather than a national figure.
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 $38,224 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 $36,962 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.