Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay in Arkansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$76,685
after federal, FICA and Arkansas tax
Tax takes
$24,435
24.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$88,645
Arkansas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arkansas — 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
$101,120
Kept after tax
$76,685
Worth in national money
$88,645
State rank
27
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Arkansas pays this job around $101,120 at the midpoint, 27 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 489 occupations Arkansas reports, this job comes in at 36 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Arkansas is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $101,120 the take-home is $76,685; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $88,645 would nationally. The average lands at $94,990, below the middle of the range.
- For electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay the Arkansas median is $101,120, ranking 27 of 48 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.
- Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay ranks 36 of 489 occupations by median in Arkansas, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Post-tax income for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay in Arkansas, on $101,120, is $76,685 — equivalent to $88,645 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 $94,990 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $70,860 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $101,120 |
| Top tenth earn over | $113,970 |
| This salary | $101,120 |
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 Arkansas | $76,685 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $79,968 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,352 |
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 | $96,454 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$8,775 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $101,120 as a midpoint for Arkansas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $70,860 and the ninetieth is $113,970 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $76,685 take-home in Arkansas comes from $101,120. 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 36 of 489.
- Two cautions on $88,645, the adjusted value of that $101,120 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Arkansas. 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 36 of 489 locally.
- The Arkansas median of $101,120 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $70,860 to $113,970. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $76,685, from $101,120, assumes a single Arkansas 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 36 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 48 for it.
- This $88,645 adjusted figure, worked from $101,120, 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 36 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 36 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $94,990, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $70,860 and the top tenth $113,970, so most people doing this work in Arkansas sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Arkansas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $88,645 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 Arkansas's own levy, $76,685 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Arkansas is $94,990. 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 ($70,860 to $113,970) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Arkansas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Arkansas'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 $88,645 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 $76,685 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arkansas 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.