Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers in Kentucky
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,471
after federal, FICA and Kentucky tax
Tax takes
$8,599
18.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,524
Kentucky costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Kentucky — 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
$47,070
Kept after tax
$38,471
Worth in national money
$42,524
State rank
28
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Kentucky is 28 of 50 states for this job, with a middle wage of $47,070. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Kentucky, this sits in the middle: 320 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Kentucky does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $47,070 you keep $38,471, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $42,524 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $47,970, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Kentucky ranks 28 of 50 for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers at $47,070. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers ranks 320 of 491 occupations in Kentucky 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.
- After federal, FICA and Kentucky income tax, retained pay for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers on $47,070 is $38,471. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $42,524 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $47,970 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 | $36,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,070 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,970 |
| This salary | $47,070 |
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 Kentucky | $38,471 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,001 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,361 |
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 | $45,166 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,646 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Kentucky earn less than $47,070. The published range is $36,300 up to $61,970, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $38,471 take-home in Kentucky comes from $47,070. 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 320 of 491.
- One number stands for prices across all of Kentucky, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $42,524, the adjusted value of that $47,070 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 320 of 491 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers in Kentucky the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,300 to $61,970. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $38,471, from $47,070, assumes a single Kentucky 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 320 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 28 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Kentucky, so $42,524 — the adjusted value of that $47,070 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 320 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,300 at the tenth percentile, $61,970 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $42,524.
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 Kentucky's own levy, $38,471 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($36,300 to $61,970) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Kentucky rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Kentucky'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 $42,524 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 $38,471 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Kentucky 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.