Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door in Michigan
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$73,125
after federal, FICA and Michigan tax
Tax takes
$23,765
24.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$77,641
Michigan costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Michigan — 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
$96,890
Kept after tax
$73,125
Worth in national money
$77,641
State rank
12
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Michigan's middle earner gets $96,890, putting the state 12 of 51 — about 30.33% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Michigan reports, this job comes in at 77 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Michigan is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $96,890 the take-home is $73,125; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $77,641 would nationally. The average lands at $85,970, below the middle of the range.
- For control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door, Michigan sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $96,890, ranking 12 of 51 and running about 30.33% 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.
- Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door ranks 77 of 493 occupations by median in Michigan, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Post-tax income for control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door in Michigan, on $96,890, is $73,125 — equivalent to $77,641 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $85,970 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,900 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $96,890 |
| Top tenth earn over | $109,230 |
| This salary | $96,890 |
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 Michigan | $73,125 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $76,992 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,590 |
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 | $91,393 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,196 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 94 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $96,890 as a midpoint for Michigan, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $50,900 and the ninetieth is $109,230 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $73,125 take-home in Michigan comes from $96,890. 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 77 of 493.
- Two cautions on $77,641, the adjusted value of that $96,890 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Michigan. 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 77 of 493 locally.
- The Michigan median of $96,890 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $50,900 to $109,230. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $73,125, from $96,890, assumes a single Michigan 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 77 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 12 of 51 for it.
- This $77,641 adjusted figure, worked from $96,890, 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 77 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 77 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $85,970, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $50,900 at the bottom tenth to $109,230 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Michigan is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $77,641 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 Michigan adds its own income tax on top — which is why $73,125 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 Michigan is $85,970. 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 ($50,900 to $109,230) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Michigan rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Michigan'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 $77,641 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 $73,125 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Michigan 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.