Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Vermont
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,646
after federal, FICA and Vermont tax
Tax takes
$9,574
18.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,131
Vermont costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Vermont — 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
$52,220
Kept after tax
$42,646
Worth in national money
$44,131
State rank
2
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Vermont's middle earner gets $52,220, putting the state 2 of 47 — about 12.13% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 300 among 453 occupations Vermont publishes pay for.
- Here is where Vermont does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $52,220 you keep $42,646, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $44,131 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $54,860, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders, Vermont sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $52,220, ranking 2 of 47 and running about 12.13% 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.
- Position 300 of 453 in Vermont places cutting and slicing 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.
- After federal, FICA and Vermont income tax, retained pay for cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders on $52,220 is $42,646. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $44,131 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 $54,860 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,670 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,220 |
| Top tenth earn over | $74,770 |
| This salary | $52,220 |
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 Vermont | $42,646 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,139 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,291 |
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 | $50,362 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,562 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Vermont earn less than $52,220. The published range is $42,670 up to $74,770, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $42,646 take-home in Vermont comes from $52,220. 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 300 of 453.
- Two cautions on $44,131, the adjusted value of that $52,220 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Vermont. 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 300 of 453 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders in Vermont the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $42,670 to $74,770. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $42,646, from $52,220, assumes a single Vermont 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 300 of 453 locally, and the state ranks 2 of 47 for it.
- This $44,131 adjusted figure, worked from $52,220, 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 300 of 453 in the state. The occupation ranks 300 of 453 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 $54,860, 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?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $42,670 and the top tenth $74,770, so most people doing this work in Vermont sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $44,131.
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 Vermont's own levy, $42,646 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.
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 Vermont is $54,860. 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 ($42,670 to $74,770) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Vermont rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Vermont'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 $44,131 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 $42,646 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Vermont 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.