Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door in Wisconsin
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,587
after federal, FICA and Wisconsin tax
Tax takes
$16,953
22.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$64,005
Wisconsin costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Wisconsin — 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
$76,540
Kept after tax
$59,587
Worth in national money
$64,005
State rank
26
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Wisconsin pays this job around $76,540 at the midpoint, 26 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Wisconsin, this sits in the middle: 144 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Wisconsin is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $76,540 the take-home is $59,587; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $64,005 would nationally. The average comes to $81,650, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door the Wisconsin median is $76,540, ranking 26 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.
- Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door ranks 144 of 491 occupations in Wisconsin 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.
- Post-tax income for control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door in Wisconsin, on $76,540, is $59,587 — equivalent to $64,005 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 $81,650 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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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 | $58,230 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $76,540 |
| Top tenth earn over | $109,550 |
| This salary | $76,540 |
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 Wisconsin | $59,587 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $62,676 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$493 |
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 | $72,149 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$681 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $76,540 as a midpoint for Wisconsin, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $58,230 and the ninetieth is $109,550 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Wisconsin's $59,587, worked from $76,540. 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 144 of 491.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $64,005 uses one figure for the whole of Wisconsin. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 491 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 144.
- The Wisconsin median of $76,540 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $58,230 to $109,550. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Wisconsin take-home of $59,587, on $76,540 for work ranking 144 of 491 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 144 of 491 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $64,005, worked from $76,540, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Wisconsin address, on work sitting at 144 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $81,650, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $58,230 and the top tenth $109,550, so most people doing this work in Wisconsin sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Wisconsin is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $64,005 in national terms.
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; Wisconsin then takes its own share, leaving $59,587.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 Wisconsin is $81,650. 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 ($58,230 to $109,550) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Wisconsin rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Wisconsin'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 $64,005 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 $59,587 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Wisconsin 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.