Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in Ohio
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,995
after federal, FICA and Ohio tax
Tax takes
$7,235
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,383
Ohio costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Ohio — 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
$45,230
Kept after tax
$37,995
Worth in national money
$41,383
State rank
34
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Ohio pays this job a middle wage of $45,230, 34 of 49 states and about 2.37% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Ohio this is lower-paid work. Of 494 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 371. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $45,230 you keep $37,995 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $41,383 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $46,370, since top earners drag the number up.
- Ohio's $45,230 median for cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic places it 34 of 49 states, about 2.37% 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.
- Against every occupation Ohio reports, cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ranks 371 of 494, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Retained pay in Ohio is $37,995 after the full tax stack, from $45,230. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $41,383 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $46,370 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,560 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,770 |
| This salary | $45,230 |
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 Ohio | $37,995 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,522 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,741 |
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 | $44,574 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,106 |
| 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, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in Ohio earn under $45,230 and half over. The published range runs $35,560 at the tenth percentile to $60,770 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $37,995 take-home in Ohio comes from $45,230. 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 371 of 494.
- Two cautions on $41,383, the adjusted value of that $45,230 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Ohio. 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 371 of 494 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in Ohio, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,560 to $60,770; 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 $37,995, from $45,230, assumes a single Ohio 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 371 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 34 of 49 for it.
- This $41,383 adjusted figure, worked from $45,230, 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 371 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 371 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $35,560 and the top tenth $60,770, so most people doing this work in Ohio sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Ohio is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $41,383 in national terms.
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 Ohio's own levy, $37,995 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($35,560 to $60,770) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Ohio rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Ohio'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 $41,383 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 $37,995 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Ohio 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.