Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay in Massachusetts
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$87,217
after federal, FICA and Massachusetts tax
Tax takes
$32,243
27.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$80,579
Massachusetts costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Massachusetts — 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
$119,460
Kept after tax
$87,217
Worth in national money
$80,579
State rank
7
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Massachusetts is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $119,460, which ranks 7 of 48 states with published figures. That is about 15.96% above the national middle.
- Within Massachusetts this is well-paid work. Of 485 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 56 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Massachusetts is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $119,460 the take-home is $87,217; in national-average money that behaves like $80,579. The average lands at $111,350, below the middle of the range.
- Massachusetts ranks 7 of 48 states publishing a median for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay, at $119,460 — about 15.96% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Ranked against every occupation Massachusetts publishes a median for, electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay sits 56 of 485 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Take-home for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay in Massachusetts, on $119,460, is $87,217; deflated by the state's price level, $80,579. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $111,350 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 | $86,780 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $119,460 |
| Top tenth earn over | $127,000 |
| This salary | $119,460 |
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 Massachusetts | $87,217 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $92,870 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$14,991 |
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 | $111,424 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$20,707 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $119,460 as a midpoint for Massachusetts, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $86,780 and the ninetieth is $127,000 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $87,217 take-home in Massachusetts comes from $119,460. 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 56 of 485.
- One number stands for prices across all of Massachusetts, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $80,579, the adjusted value of that $119,460 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 56 of 485 in the state.
- The Massachusetts median of $119,460 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $86,780 to $127,000. 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 $87,217, from $119,460, assumes a single Massachusetts 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 56 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 7 of 48 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Massachusetts, so $80,579 — the adjusted value of that $119,460 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 56 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $111,350 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $86,780 and the top tenth $127,000, so most people doing this work in Massachusetts sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Massachusetts run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $80,579 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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 Massachusetts adds its own income tax on top — which is why $87,217 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 Massachusetts is $111,350. 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 ($86,780 to $127,000) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Massachusetts rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Massachusetts's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $80,579 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $87,217 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Massachusetts 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.