Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers in Illinois
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,149
after federal, FICA and Illinois tax
Tax takes
$8,711
19.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,568
Illinois costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Illinois — 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
$44,860
Kept after tax
$36,149
Worth in national money
$36,568
State rank
38
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Illinois pays this job a middle wage of $44,860, 38 of 50 states and about 6.17% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Illinois this is lower-paid work. Of 494 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 397. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $44,860 the take-home is $36,149, which is worth about $36,568 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $47,710, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Illinois's $44,860 median for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers places it 38 of 50 states, about 6.17% 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.
- Against every occupation Illinois reports, computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers ranks 397 of 494, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Illinois's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers on its $44,860 median: $36,149 retained after tax becomes $36,568 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $47,710 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,350 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $44,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,100 |
| This salary | $44,860 |
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 Illinois | $36,149 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,225 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,768 |
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 | $42,277 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,348 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 99 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Illinois earn less than $44,860. The published range is $33,350 up to $63,100, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $36,149 take-home in Illinois comes from $44,860. 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 397 of 494.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $36,568 uses one figure for the whole of Illinois. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 494 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 397.
- Reported values are medians; for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers in Illinois the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $33,350 to $63,100. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $36,149, from $44,860, assumes a single Illinois 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 397 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 38 of 50 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $36,568, worked from $44,860, 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 Illinois address, on work sitting at 397 of 494 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 $47,710, 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 $33,350 and the top tenth $63,100, so most people doing this work in Illinois sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Illinois is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $36,568 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Illinois adds its own income tax on top — which is why $36,149 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 Illinois is $47,710. 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 ($33,350 to $63,100) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Illinois rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Illinois'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 $36,568 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 $36,149 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Illinois 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.