Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$64,364
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$14,576
18.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$66,235
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$78,940
Kept after tax
$64,364
Worth in national money
$66,235
State rank
42
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $78,940. That is 42 of 51 states, and about 17.18% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Texas. It ranks 118 out of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $78,940, tax leaves $64,364, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $66,235 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $78,670.
- For electrical power-line installers and repairers, Texas sits in the lower band at $78,940, ranking 42 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 17.18%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Texas, electrical power-line installers and repairers ranks 118 of 493 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for electrical power-line installers and repairers — median $78,940 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $64,364 retained, $66,235 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $78,670 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,940 |
| Top tenth earn over | $107,550 |
| This salary | $78,940 |
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 Texas | $64,364 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $64,364 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,019 |
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 | $78,940 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,910 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
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 power-line installers and repairers in Texas earn under $78,940 and half over. The published range runs $46,760 at the tenth percentile to $107,550 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $64,364, worked from $78,940. 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 118 of 493.
- Two cautions on $66,235, the adjusted value of that $78,940 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 118 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for electrical power-line installers and repairers in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $46,760 to $107,550; 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.
- The Texas take-home of $64,364, on $78,940 for work ranking 118 of 493 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 118 of 493 in the state.
- This $66,235 adjusted figure, worked from $78,940, 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 118 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 118 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $46,760, the highest tenth $107,550, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Texas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $66,235 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $64,364 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($46,760) and the ninetieth ($107,550) 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?
Texas'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 $66,235 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?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $64,364 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.