Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,192
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$6,138
14.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,120
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
$42,330
Kept after tax
$36,192
Worth in national money
$39,120
State rank
44
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Tennessee pays this job a middle wage of $42,330, 44 of 50 states and about 11.46% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Tennessee this is lower-paid work. Of 491 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 373. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $42,330 you keep $36,192 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $39,120 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $46,660, since top earners drag the number up.
- Tennessee's $42,330 median for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers places it 44 of 50 states, about 11.46% 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 Tennessee reports, computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers ranks 373 of 491, 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.
- Retained pay in Tennessee is $36,192 after the full tax stack, from $42,330. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $39,120 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $46,660 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,530 |
| This salary | $42,330 |
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 | $36,192 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,192 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,876 |
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 | $42,330 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,269 |
| 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 $42,330. The published range is $35,700 up to $62,530, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $36,192 take-home in Tennessee comes from $42,330. 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 373 of 491.
- One number stands for prices across all of Tennessee, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $39,120, the adjusted value of that $42,330 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 373 of 491 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers in Tennessee the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $35,700 to $62,530. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $36,192, from $42,330, assumes a single Tennessee 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 373 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 44 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Tennessee, so $39,120 — the adjusted value of that $42,330 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 373 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 $46,660, 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?
The range here is narrow. From $35,700 at the bottom tenth to $62,530 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $39,120.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $36,192 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 Tennessee is $46,660. 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 ($35,700 to $62,530) 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 $39,120 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 $36,192 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.