Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,670
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$9,030
18.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,104
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$49,700
Kept after tax
$40,670
Worth in national money
$40,104
State rank
15
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Rhode Island is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $49,700, which ranks 15 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 3.95% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Rhode Island, this sits in the middle: 318 of 452 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Rhode Island costs about what the country costs, so from $49,700, take-home of $40,670 is worth roughly $40,104 in national money. The average comes to $51,850, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Rhode Island ranks 15 of 50 states publishing a median for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers, at $49,700 — about 3.95% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers ranks 318 of 452 occupations in Rhode Island 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.
- Price parity in Rhode Island is near the national base, so for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers, whose median is $49,700, the adjusted figure of $40,104 differs little from $40,670 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $51,850 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,650 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,700 |
| Top tenth earn over | $71,250 |
| This salary | $49,700 |
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 Rhode Island | $40,670 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,114 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,234 |
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 | $47,903 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,912 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers in Rhode Island earn under $49,700 and half over. The published range runs $37,650 at the tenth percentile to $71,250 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $40,670 take-home in Rhode Island comes from $49,700. 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 318 of 452.
- Two cautions on $40,104, the adjusted value of that $49,700 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Rhode Island. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 318 of 452 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers in Rhode Island, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,650 to $71,250; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $40,670, from $49,700, assumes a single Rhode Island 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 318 of 452 locally, and the state ranks 15 of 50 for it.
- This $40,104 adjusted figure, worked from $49,700, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 318 of 452 in the state. The occupation ranks 318 of 452 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $51,850 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $37,650 at the bottom tenth to $71,250 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Rhode Island costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $40,104 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Rhode Island then takes its own share, leaving $40,670.
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.
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 Rhode Island is $51,850. 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 ($37,650 to $71,250) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Rhode Island rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $40,104 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $40,670 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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.