Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,643
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$9,917
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,822
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$61,560
Kept after tax
$51,643
Worth in national money
$55,822
State rank
47
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Tennessee is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $61,560, ranking 47 of 50 states — about 16.91% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 187 among 491 occupations Tennessee publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $61,560 you keep $51,643 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $55,822 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $63,080, since top earners drag the number up.
- Tennessee ranks 47 of 50 for electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment, with a median of $61,560 — about 16.91% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Position 187 of 491 in Tennessee 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.
- Retained pay in Tennessee is $51,643 after the full tax stack, from $61,560. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $55,822 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $63,080 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,240 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,560 |
| Top tenth earn over | $90,010 |
| This salary | $61,560 |
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 Tennessee | $51,643 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,643 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,677 |
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 | $61,560 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,237 |
| 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 Tennessee earn under $61,560 and half over. The published range runs $39,240 at the tenth percentile to $90,010 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $51,643 take-home in Tennessee comes from $61,560. 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 187 of 491.
- Two cautions on $55,822, the adjusted value of that $61,560 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Tennessee. 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 187 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment in Tennessee, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $39,240 to $90,010; 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 $51,643, from $61,560, assumes a single Tennessee 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 187 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 47 of 50 for it.
- This $55,822 adjusted figure, worked from $61,560, 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 187 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 187 of 491 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 $39,240 and the top tenth $90,010 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Tennessee is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $55,822 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $51,643 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 ($39,240) and the ninetieth ($90,010) 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?
Tennessee'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 $55,822 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $51,643 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.