Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers in Ohio
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,558
after federal, FICA and Ohio tax
Tax takes
$10,862
17.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,067
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
$61,420
Kept after tax
$50,558
Worth in national money
$55,067
State rank
12
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Ohio pays drywall and ceiling tile installers a middle wage of $61,420, ranking 12 of 49 states and sitting about 4.23% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Ohio, this sits in the middle: 217 of 494 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $61,420 you keep $50,558 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $55,067 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $61,060.
- Ohio's median for drywall and ceiling tile installers is $61,420, about 4.23% above the national figure and 12 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Drywall and ceiling tile installers ranks 217 of 494 occupations in Ohio 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.
- Retained pay in Ohio is $50,558 after the full tax stack, from $61,420. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $55,067 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $61,060 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,410 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,420 |
| Top tenth earn over | $74,400 |
| This salary | $61,420 |
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 | $50,558 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,531 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,038 |
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 | $60,209 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,465 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Ohio earn less than $61,420. The published range is $42,410 up to $74,400, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $50,558 take-home in Ohio comes from $61,420. 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 217 of 494.
- Two cautions on $55,067, the adjusted value of that $61,420 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 217 of 494 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for drywall and ceiling tile installers in Ohio the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $42,410 to $74,400. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $50,558, from $61,420, 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 217 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 12 of 49 for it.
- This $55,067 adjusted figure, worked from $61,420, 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 217 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 217 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $42,410 at the bottom tenth to $74,400 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 Ohio sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $55,067 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 Ohio's own levy, $50,558 remains.
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 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($42,410 to $74,400) 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 $55,067 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 $50,558 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.