Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers in Montana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,999
after federal, FICA and Montana tax
Tax takes
$8,671
18.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,215
Montana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Montana — 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
$47,670
Kept after tax
$38,999
Worth in national money
$43,215
State rank
22
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Montana pays this job around $47,670 at the midpoint, 22 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Montana, this sits in the middle: 317 of 475 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $47,670 you keep $38,999 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $43,215 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $48,010, since top earners drag the number up.
- For coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers the Montana median is $47,670, ranking 22 of 48 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.
- Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers ranks 317 of 475 occupations in Montana 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.
- Retained pay in Montana is $38,999 after the full tax stack, from $47,670. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $43,215 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $48,010 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 | $40,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,840 |
| This salary | $47,670 |
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 Montana | $38,999 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,483 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,555 |
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 | $45,823 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,881 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $47,670 as a midpoint for Montana, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $40,200 and the ninetieth is $60,840 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $38,999 take-home in Montana comes from $47,670. 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 317 of 475.
- One number stands for prices across all of Montana, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $43,215, the adjusted value of that $47,670 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 317 of 475 in the state.
- The Montana median of $47,670 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $40,200 to $60,840. 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 $38,999, from $47,670, assumes a single Montana 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 317 of 475 locally, and the state ranks 22 of 48 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Montana, so $43,215 — the adjusted value of that $47,670 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 317 of 475 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $40,200 at the tenth percentile, $60,840 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Montana sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $43,215 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Montana's own levy, $38,999 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($40,200 to $60,840) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Montana rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Montana'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 $43,215 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 $38,999 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Montana 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.