Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment in South Carolina
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,248
after federal, FICA and South Carolina tax
Tax takes
$16,242
21.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,586
South Carolina costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in South Carolina — 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
$75,490
Kept after tax
$59,248
Worth in national money
$63,586
State rank
25
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. South Carolina pays this job around $75,490 at the midpoint, 25 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 128 among 492 occupations South Carolina publishes pay for.
- South Carolina is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $75,490 the take-home is $59,248; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $63,586 would nationally. The average lands at $74,180, below the middle of the range.
- For electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment the South Carolina median is $75,490, ranking 25 of 50 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 128 of 492 in South Carolina places electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment 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.
- Post-tax income for electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment in South Carolina, on $75,490, is $59,248 — equivalent to $63,586 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 $74,180 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,580 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,490 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,170 |
| This salary | $75,490 |
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 South Carolina | $59,248 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,937 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$151 |
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 | $71,667 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$209 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
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 electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment in South Carolina earn under $75,490 and half over. The published range runs $47,580 at the tenth percentile to $103,170 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 South Carolina's $59,248, worked from $75,490. 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 128 of 492.
- Two cautions on $63,586, the adjusted value of that $75,490 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of South Carolina. 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 128 of 492 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment in South Carolina, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $47,580 to $103,170; 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 South Carolina take-home of $59,248, on $75,490 for work ranking 128 of 492 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 128 of 492 in the state.
- This $63,586 adjusted figure, worked from $75,490, 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 128 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 128 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $47,580 and the top tenth $103,170 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $63,586.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and South Carolina adds its own income tax on top — which is why $59,248 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($47,580) and the ninetieth ($103,170) 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?
South Carolina'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 $63,586 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 $59,248 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and South Carolina 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.