Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay in West Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$73,911
after federal, FICA and West Virginia tax
Tax takes
$23,689
24.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$82,331
West Virginia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the top tenth percentile for this work in West Virginia — 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
$97,600
Kept after tax
$73,911
Worth in national money
$82,331
State rank
35
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. West Virginia pays this job a middle wage of $97,600, 35 of 48 states and about 5.26% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 473 occupations West Virginia reports, this job comes in at 35 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- West Virginia is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $97,600 the take-home is $73,911; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $82,331 would nationally. The average lands at $82,840, below the middle of the range.
- West Virginia's $97,600 median for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay places it 35 of 48 states, about 5.26% 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.
- Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay ranks 35 of 473 occupations by median in West Virginia, 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 West Virginia, on $97,600, is $73,911 — equivalent to $82,331 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 $82,840 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 | $37,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $97,600 |
| Top tenth earn over | $97,600 |
| This salary | $97,600 |
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 West Virginia | $73,911 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $77,492 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,587 |
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 | $92,510 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,574 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
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, powerhouse, substation, and relay in West Virginia earn under $97,600 and half over. The published range runs $37,300 at the tenth percentile to $97,600 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $73,911 take-home in West Virginia comes from $97,600. 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 35 of 473.
- Two cautions on $82,331, the adjusted value of that $97,600 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of West Virginia. 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 35 of 473 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay in West Virginia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,300 to $97,600; 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 $73,911, from $97,600, assumes a single West Virginia 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 35 of 473 locally, and the state ranks 35 of 48 for it.
- This $82,331 adjusted figure, worked from $97,600, 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 35 of 473 in the state. The occupation ranks 35 of 473 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 $82,840 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 $37,300 and the top tenth $97,600, so most people doing this work in West Virginia 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 $82,331.
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 West Virginia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $73,911 of this wage survives to your account.
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 West Virginia is $82,840. 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 ($37,300 to $97,600) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to West Virginia rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
West Virginia'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 $82,331 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 $73,911 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and West Virginia 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.