Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,384
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$8,536
18.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,660
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$45,920
Kept after tax
$37,384
Worth in national money
$38,660
State rank
34
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Georgia pays this job a middle wage of $45,920, 34 of 47 states and about 5.4% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 349 among 492 occupations Georgia publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $45,920 you keep $37,384 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $38,660 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $47,850, since top earners drag the number up.
- Georgia's $45,920 median for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders places it 34 of 47 states, about 5.4% 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.
- Position 349 of 492 in Georgia places crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders 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.
- Retained pay in Georgia is $37,384 after the full tax stack, from $45,920. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $38,660 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $47,850 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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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 | $36,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,920 |
| Top tenth earn over | $70,200 |
| This salary | $45,920 |
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 Georgia | $37,384 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,077 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,552 |
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 | $43,813 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,878 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
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 Georgia earn under $45,920 and half over. The published range runs $36,080 at the tenth percentile to $70,200 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Georgia the take-home figure of $37,384, from $45,920, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 349 of 492 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $38,660, the adjusted value of that $45,920 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Georgia. 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 349 of 492 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders in Georgia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,080 to $70,200; 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.
- Take-home for Georgia is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $37,384 from $45,920. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 349 of 492 locally.
- This $38,660 adjusted figure, worked from $45,920, 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 349 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 349 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 $47,850, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $36,080 and the top tenth $70,200 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $38,660.
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 Georgia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $37,384 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Georgia is $47,850. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($36,080) and the ninetieth ($70,200) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Georgia'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 $38,660 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 $37,384 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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.