Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in North Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,776
after federal, FICA and North Dakota tax
Tax takes
$7,504
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,167
North Dakota costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in North Dakota — 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
$49,280
Kept after tax
$41,776
Worth in national money
$47,167
State rank
23
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. North Dakota is 23 of 47 states for this job, with a middle wage of $49,280. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in North Dakota, this sits in the middle: 319 of 460 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where North Dakota does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $49,280 you keep $41,776, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $47,167 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $53,650, because the best-paid pull it up.
- North Dakota ranks 23 of 47 for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders at $49,280. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders ranks 319 of 460 occupations in North Dakota 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 North Dakota income tax, retained pay for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders on $49,280 is $41,776. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $47,167 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 $53,650 sits above the median, the right skew typical of 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 | $36,260 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $73,920 |
| This salary | $49,280 |
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 North Dakota | $41,776 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,776 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,176 |
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 | $49,280 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,050 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 89 |
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 North Dakota earn under $49,280 and half over. The published range runs $36,260 at the tenth percentile to $73,920 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $41,776 take-home in North Dakota comes from $49,280. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 319 of 460.
- One number stands for prices across all of North Dakota, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $47,167, the adjusted value of that $49,280 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 319 of 460 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders in North Dakota, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,260 to $73,920; 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.
- Retained pay of $41,776, from $49,280, assumes a single North Dakota filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 319 of 460 locally, and the state ranks 23 of 47 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for North Dakota, so $47,167 — the adjusted value of that $49,280 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 319 of 460 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $53,650 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $36,260, the highest tenth $73,920, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $47,167.
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 North Dakota's own levy, $41,776 remains.
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 North Dakota is $53,650. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($36,260) and the ninetieth ($73,920) 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?
North Dakota'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 $47,167 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 $41,776 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and North Dakota 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.