Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Nebraska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,545
after federal, FICA and Nebraska tax
Tax takes
$11,375
19.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,608
Nebraska costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Nebraska — 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
$58,920
Kept after tax
$47,545
Worth in national money
$52,608
State rank
6
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Nebraska's middle earner gets $58,920, putting the state 6 of 47 — about 21.38% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Nebraska, this sits in the middle: 238 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Nebraska does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $58,920 you keep $47,545, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $52,608 would elsewhere. The average is lower, $56,940, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders, Nebraska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $58,920, ranking 6 of 47 and running about 21.38% 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.
- Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders ranks 238 of 488 occupations in Nebraska 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.
- After federal, FICA and Nebraska income tax, retained pay for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders on $58,920 is $47,545. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $52,608 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $56,940 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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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 | $45,160 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,920 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,830 |
| This salary | $58,920 |
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 Nebraska | $47,545 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,522 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,646 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
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 | $56,459 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,991 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Nebraska earn less than $58,920. The published range is $45,160 up to $78,830, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Nebraska the take-home figure of $47,545, from $58,920, 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 238 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $52,608, the adjusted value of that $58,920 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Nebraska. 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 238 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders in Nebraska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,160 to $78,830. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Nebraska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $47,545 from $58,920. 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 238 of 488 locally.
- This $52,608 adjusted figure, worked from $58,920, 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 238 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 238 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $56,940, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $45,160 at the bottom tenth to $78,830 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Nebraska sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $52,608 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 Nebraska adds its own income tax on top — which is why $47,545 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 47 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Nebraska is $56,940. 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 ($45,160 to $78,830) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Nebraska rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Nebraska'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 $52,608 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 $47,545 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Nebraska 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.