Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay in Montana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$73,196
after federal, FICA and Montana tax
Tax takes
$24,184
24.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$81,109
Montana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Montana — 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
$97,380
Kept after tax
$73,196
Worth in national money
$81,109
State rank
36
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Montana pays this job a middle wage of $97,380, 36 of 48 states and about 5.47% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Montana. It ranks 56 out of 475 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Here is where Montana does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $97,380 you keep $73,196, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $81,109 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $101,460, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Montana's $97,380 median for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay places it 36 of 48 states, about 5.47% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Within Montana, electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay ranks 56 of 475 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- After federal, FICA and Montana income tax, retained pay for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay on $97,380 is $73,196. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $81,109 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $101,460 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $76,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $97,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $116,400 |
| This salary | $97,380 |
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 Montana | $73,196 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $77,337 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,524 |
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 | $91,494 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,105 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Montana earn less than $97,380. The published range is $76,700 up to $116,400, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $73,196 take-home in Montana comes from $97,380. 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 475.
- One number stands for prices across all of Montana, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $81,109, the adjusted value of that $97,380 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 475 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay in Montana the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $76,700 to $116,400. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $73,196, from $97,380, assumes a single Montana 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 475 locally, and the state ranks 36 of 48 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Montana, so $81,109 — the adjusted value of that $97,380 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 475 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 $101,460 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 $76,700 and the top tenth $116,400, so most people doing this work in Montana sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $81,109.
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 Montana adds its own income tax on top — which is why $73,196 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 Montana is $101,460. 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 ($76,700 to $116,400) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Montana rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Montana'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 $81,109 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 $73,196 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Montana 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.