Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,112
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$6,118
14.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,033
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$42,230
Kept after tax
$36,112
Worth in national money
$39,033
State rank
39
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Tennessee pays this job a middle wage of $42,230, 39 of 48 states and about 7.9% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Tennessee this is lower-paid work. Of 491 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 375. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $42,230 you keep $36,112 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $39,033 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $46,720, since top earners drag the number up.
- Tennessee's $42,230 median for electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers places it 39 of 48 states, about 7.9% 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.
- Against every occupation Tennessee reports, electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers ranks 375 of 491, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Retained pay in Tennessee is $36,112 after the full tax stack, from $42,230. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $39,033 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $46,720 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,350 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $71,510 |
| This salary | $42,230 |
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 Tennessee | $36,112 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,112 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,872 |
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 | $42,230 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,264 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $42,230 as a midpoint for Tennessee, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,350 and the ninetieth is $71,510 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Tennessee's $36,112, worked from $42,230. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 375 of 491.
- Two cautions on $39,033, the adjusted value of that $42,230 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Tennessee. 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 375 of 491 locally.
- The Tennessee median of $42,230 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,350 to $71,510. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Tennessee take-home of $36,112, on $42,230 for work ranking 375 of 491 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 375 of 491 in the state.
- This $39,033 adjusted figure, worked from $42,230, 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 375 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 375 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $46,720, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $33,350, the highest tenth $71,510, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Tennessee sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $39,033 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $36,112 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 Tennessee is $46,720. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($33,350) and the ninetieth ($71,510) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Tennessee'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 $39,033 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $36,112 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.