Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
What the pay figures show
- Two answers for this job. Best paid: Washington, at $52,480. Tax does not change that. Best off: Arkansas, at $43,985 once local prices count. Tax was not what separated them. Rent was.
- Washington's $52,480 median for electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers survives the tax adjustment intact, so state income tax is not a differentiator in this occupation's geography. It does not survive price deflation: Arkansas takes the top position at $43,985. Housing is where regional price variation concentrates, which is why the reordering appears at this step and not the previous one.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$45,850
People doing it
246,970
Highest paid
$52,480
WA
Best off, really
$43,985
AR, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$35,350
Highest tenth
$62,950
Lowest, really
$30,927
RI
States with data
48
National average
$47,660
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
86.51%
AR, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Pay for this job is fairly steady around the country. Count tax and local prices and the states bunch closer still, from $30,927 to $43,985. For work like this, where you live changes your life more than it changes your pay.
- About 246,970 Americans work in this job, on a middle wage of $45,850. Big enough that where you live changes the arithmetic.
- Not every state reports this one. The figures here cover 48 jurisdictions, and the middle wage across them is $45,850. A state you do not see is one with no published number, not one paying nothing. Of those published, Washington pays most.
- Geographic dispersion in electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers is moderate by national standards. Tax and price adjustment compress the distribution further, to a real range of $30,927 through $43,985. Where nominal spread is this contained, relocation decisions in the occupation turn on non-wage factors, because the wage differential does not survive the adjustments in a form large enough to drive them.
- With 246,970 workers, electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers sits in the middle of the BLS headcount distribution. The state-level spread described above therefore applies to a meaningful population rather than a niche one.
- BLS publishes an occupational median for electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers in 48 jurisdictions, short of the full set. ⚠️ Absence reflects estimate suppression — small samples or disclosure rules — rather than absence of employment, so the state comparison above is over the published subset.
Pay band: Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,350 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,950 |
| This salary | $45,850 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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The national median for this job
$45,850around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $35,350 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $45,850 |
| Top tenth | $62,950 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers, state by state
The national median for this job
48states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Nevada · $37,110 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Washington · $52,480 |
| Spread | $15,370 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $44,410 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $45,701 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| AR | $46,200 | $38,051 | $43,985 |
| MT | $47,730 | $39,044 | $43,265 |
| OH | $46,970 | $39,345 | $42,854 |
| WY | $45,520 | $38,755 | $42,660 |
| KY | $47,220 | $38,586 | $42,652 |
| NE | $46,810 | $38,366 | $42,451 |
| MO | $46,770 | $38,499 | $41,955 |
| SD | $43,180 | $36,875 | $41,858 |
| IA | $44,880 | $37,147 | $41,848 |
| VT | $48,830 | $40,035 | $41,429 |
| SC | $46,210 | $38,562 | $41,385 |
| ND | $42,790 | $36,562 | $41,279 |
| WA | $52,480 | $44,348 | $40,850 |
| MS | $43,270 | $35,309 | $40,449 |
| WI | $45,470 | $37,327 | $40,095 |
| UT | $46,940 | $37,807 | $39,796 |
| NH | $49,020 | $41,568 | $39,459 |
| NC | $45,080 | $37,112 | $39,422 |
| ME | $47,240 | $38,269 | $39,413 |
| MN | $47,720 | $38,789 | $39,412 |
| TN | $42,230 | $36,112 | $39,033 |
| TX | $44,410 | $37,863 | $38,964 |
| KS | $43,520 | $35,008 | $38,913 |
| DE | $47,880 | $38,561 | $38,851 |
| CO | $47,660 | $39,086 | $38,553 |
| MI | $44,350 | $36,181 | $38,415 |
| PA | $45,600 | $37,420 | $38,379 |
| IN | $42,810 | $35,344 | $38,341 |
| OK | $41,020 | $33,794 | $38,278 |
| AZ | $46,110 | $38,479 | $38,059 |
| WV | $40,260 | $33,477 | $37,292 |
| MD | $47,720 | $38,620 | $37,147 |
| GA | $43,410 | $35,493 | $36,704 |
| ID | $39,980 | $33,038 | $36,137 |
| LA | $37,930 | $31,905 | $36,114 |
| VA | $44,660 | $36,257 | $35,987 |
| CT | $45,080 | $36,623 | $35,320 |
| CA | $48,080 | $39,735 | $35,295 |
| OR | $47,640 | $36,840 | $35,180 |
| MA | $47,130 | $38,012 | $35,119 |
| NJ | $45,800 | $37,998 | $34,898 |
| NM | $37,210 | $31,446 | $34,790 |
| IL | $42,470 | $34,347 | $34,745 |
| AL | $38,180 | $31,234 | $34,716 |
| NY | $45,400 | $36,804 | $34,196 |
| NV | $37,110 | $31,998 | $32,994 |
| FL | $39,090 | $33,589 | $32,468 |
| RI | $37,550 | $31,363 | $30,927 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of this job earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $45,850.
- Take-home figures for this job assume one person filing alone, with no dependants and nothing going into a pension before tax. Any of those lowers the tax and raises what you keep, so treat these as the plain case rather than your case. Local city income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those matter. In Washington, the best state after tax, the figure works out at $44,348.
- The price adjustment for this job uses a statewide figure, and states are not uniform. A city and a rural county in the same state can differ more from each other than two states do, so treat the real-terms comparison as a direction rather than a precise answer — Rhode Island anchors the bottom at $30,927. The wage data and the price data also come from different years, because that is how each is published.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $45,850, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- Take-home calculations for electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers assume a single filer with no dependants, the standard deduction, and no pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figures function as a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape; the highest such figure is $44,348, in Washington. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of a few other states.
- Real-terms figures for electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers deflate take-home by a statewide regional price parity, which conceals substantial intra-state variation — metropolitan and non-metropolitan price levels within one state frequently differ by more than two states differ from each other. The wage and price series also carry different reference periods, as each is published on its own schedule, so the adjustment is directionally sound rather than precisely dated.