Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door in Pennsylvania
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,389
after federal, FICA and Pennsylvania tax
Tax takes
$16,731
21.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$62,963
Pennsylvania costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Pennsylvania — 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
$78,120
Kept after tax
$61,389
Worth in national money
$62,963
State rank
21
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Pennsylvania pays this job around $78,120 at the midpoint, 21 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 132 among 492 occupations Pennsylvania publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $78,120, tax leaves $61,389, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $62,963 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $80,810, since top earners drag the number up.
- For control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door the Pennsylvania median is $78,120, ranking 21 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 132 of 492 in Pennsylvania places control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Because Pennsylvania sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door — median $78,120 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $61,389 retained, $62,963 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $80,810 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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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 | $58,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,120 |
| Top tenth earn over | $105,010 |
| This salary | $78,120 |
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 Pennsylvania | $61,389 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,787 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,679 |
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 | $74,711 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,700 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
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 control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door in Pennsylvania earn under $78,120 and half over. The published range runs $58,760 at the tenth percentile to $105,010 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Pennsylvania's $61,389, worked from $78,120. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 132 of 492.
- One number stands for prices across all of Pennsylvania, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $62,963, the adjusted value of that $78,120 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 132 of 492 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door in Pennsylvania, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $58,760 to $105,010; 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.
- The Pennsylvania take-home of $61,389, on $78,120 for work ranking 132 of 492 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 132 of 492 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Pennsylvania, so $62,963 — the adjusted value of that $78,120 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 132 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $80,810, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $58,760 at the tenth percentile, $105,010 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Pennsylvania sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $62,963 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Pennsylvania adds its own income tax on top — which is why $61,389 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 Pennsylvania is $80,810. 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 ($58,760 to $105,010) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Pennsylvania rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Pennsylvania'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 $62,963 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 $61,389 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Pennsylvania 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.