Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Missouri
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,646
after federal, FICA and Missouri tax
Tax takes
$9,284
18.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,385
Missouri costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Missouri — 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
$50,930
Kept after tax
$41,646
Worth in national money
$45,385
State rank
6
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Missouri's middle earner gets $50,930, putting the state 6 of 47 — about 9.36% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Missouri, this sits in the middle: 278 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Missouri is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $50,930 the take-home is $41,646; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $45,385 would nationally. The average comes to $51,320, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders, Missouri sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $50,930, ranking 6 of 47 and running about 9.36% 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.
- Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders ranks 278 of 488 occupations in Missouri 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 cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders in Missouri, on $50,930, is $41,646 — equivalent to $45,385 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 $51,320 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,530 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,930 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,410 |
| This salary | $50,930 |
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 Missouri | $41,646 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,102 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,029 |
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 | $49,117 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,245 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
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 cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders in Missouri earn under $50,930 and half over. The published range runs $37,530 at the tenth percentile to $63,410 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 Missouri's $41,646, worked from $50,930. 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 278 of 488.
- Two cautions on $45,385, the adjusted value of that $50,930 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Missouri. 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 278 of 488 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders in Missouri, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,530 to $63,410; 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 Missouri take-home of $41,646, on $50,930 for work ranking 278 of 488 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 278 of 488 in the state.
- This $45,385 adjusted figure, worked from $50,930, 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 278 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 278 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $37,530 at the bottom tenth to $63,410 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 Missouri sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $45,385 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Missouri's own levy, $41,646 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 ($37,530 to $63,410) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Missouri rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Missouri'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 $45,385 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 $41,646 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Missouri 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.