Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,982
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$8,288
15.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$48,622
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$53,270
Kept after tax
$44,982
Worth in national money
$48,622
State rank
8
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Tennessee's middle earner gets $53,270, putting the state 8 of 48 — about 12.27% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Tennessee, this sits in the middle: 248 of 491 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 $53,270 you keep $44,982 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $48,622 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $51,360.
- For coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers, Tennessee sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $53,270, ranking 8 of 48 and running about 12.27% 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 248 of 491 occupations in Tennessee 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 Tennessee is $44,982 after the full tax stack, from $53,270. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $48,622 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $51,360 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,220 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $53,270 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,470 |
| This salary | $53,270 |
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 Tennessee | $44,982 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,982 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,332 |
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 | $53,270 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,820 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Tennessee earn less than $53,270. The published range is $40,220 up to $58,470, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Tennessee the take-home figure of $44,982, from $53,270, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 248 of 491 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $48,622 uses one figure for the whole of Tennessee. 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 248.
- Reported values are medians; for coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers in Tennessee the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $40,220 to $58,470. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Tennessee is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $44,982 from $53,270. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 248 of 491 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $48,622, worked from $53,270, 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 Tennessee address, on work sitting at 248 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $51,360, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $40,220 and the top tenth $58,470, so most people doing this work in Tennessee sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Tennessee is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $48,622 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $44,982 survives, because Tennessee levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 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 Tennessee is $51,360. 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 ($40,220 to $58,470) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Tennessee rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Tennessee'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 $48,622 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?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $44,982 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.