Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining in Wisconsin
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,989
after federal, FICA and Wisconsin tax
Tax takes
$11,291
19.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,473
Wisconsin costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Wisconsin — 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
$58,280
Kept after tax
$46,989
Worth in national money
$50,473
State rank
28
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Wisconsin sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $58,280, ranking 28 of 49 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 273 among 491 occupations Wisconsin publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $58,280 you keep $46,989 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $50,473 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $59,180, since top earners drag the number up.
- Wisconsin occupies the middle band for excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface mining: a median of $58,280, ranking 28 of 49. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Position 273 of 491 in Wisconsin places excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface mining in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in Wisconsin is $46,989 after the full tax stack, from $58,280. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $50,473 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $59,180 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,110 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $73,870 |
| This salary | $58,280 |
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 Wisconsin | $46,989 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,008 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$40 |
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 | $55,767 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$48 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $58,280 as a midpoint for Wisconsin, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,110 and the ninetieth is $73,870 — 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 Wisconsin's $46,989, worked from $58,280. 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 273 of 491.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $50,473 uses one figure for the whole of Wisconsin. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 491 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 273.
- The Wisconsin median of $58,280 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,110 to $73,870. 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 Wisconsin take-home of $46,989, on $58,280 for work ranking 273 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 273 of 491 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $50,473, worked from $58,280, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Wisconsin address, on work sitting at 273 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $49,110 at the tenth percentile, $73,870 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Wisconsin sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $50,473 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Wisconsin adds its own income tax on top — which is why $46,989 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($49,110 to $73,870) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Wisconsin rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Wisconsin'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 $50,473 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 $46,989 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Wisconsin 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.