Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,698
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$10,432
19.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,179
Connecticut costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Connecticut — 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
$53,130
Kept after tax
$42,698
Worth in national money
$41,179
State rank
14
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Connecticut is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $53,130, which ranks 14 of 47 states with published figures. That is about 9.46% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Connecticut, this sits in the middle: 332 of 482 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Connecticut is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $53,130 the take-home is $42,698; in national-average money that behaves like $41,179. The average comes to $53,330, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Connecticut ranks 14 of 47 states publishing a median for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders, at $53,130 — about 9.46% 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.
- Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders ranks 332 of 482 occupations in Connecticut 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.
- Take-home for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders in Connecticut, on $53,130, is $42,698; deflated by the state's price level, $41,179. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $53,330 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,440 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $53,130 |
| Top tenth earn over | $68,890 |
| This salary | $53,130 |
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 Connecticut | $42,698 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,870 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,996 |
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 | $50,427 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,042 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
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 crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders in Connecticut earn under $53,130 and half over. The published range runs $37,440 at the tenth percentile to $68,890 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 Connecticut's $42,698, worked from $53,130. 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 332 of 482.
- Two cautions on $41,179, the adjusted value of that $53,130 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Connecticut. 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 332 of 482 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders in Connecticut, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,440 to $68,890; 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 Connecticut take-home of $42,698, on $53,130 for work ranking 332 of 482 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 332 of 482 in the state.
- This $41,179 adjusted figure, worked from $53,130, 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 332 of 482 in the state. The occupation ranks 332 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $37,440 at the tenth percentile, $68,890 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Connecticut run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $41,179 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Connecticut's own levy, $42,698 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($37,440 to $68,890) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Connecticut rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Connecticut's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $41,179 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 $42,698 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Connecticut 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.