Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in Connecticut
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,527
after federal, FICA and Connecticut tax
Tax takes
$9,703
19.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,085
Connecticut costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Connecticut — 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
$50,230
Kept after tax
$40,527
Worth in national money
$39,085
State rank
10
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Connecticut pays this job a middle wage of $50,230, ranking 10 of 46 states and sitting about 5.26% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Connecticut, this sits in the middle: 349 of 482 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Connecticut is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $50,230 the take-home is $40,527; in national-average money that behaves like $39,085. The average comes to $51,830, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Connecticut's median for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic is $50,230, about 5.26% above the national figure and 10 of 46 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ranks 349 of 482 occupations in Connecticut by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Take-home for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in Connecticut, on $50,230, is $40,527; deflated by the state's price level, $39,085. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $51,830 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,470 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,300 |
| This salary | $50,230 |
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 Connecticut | $40,527 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,540 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,691 |
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 | $47,725 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,674 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Connecticut earn less than $50,230. The published range is $38,470 up to $61,300, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $40,527 take-home in Connecticut comes from $50,230. 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 349 of 482.
- One number stands for prices across all of Connecticut, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $39,085, the adjusted value of that $50,230 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 349 of 482 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in Connecticut the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $38,470 to $61,300. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $40,527, from $50,230, assumes a single Connecticut 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 349 of 482 locally, and the state ranks 10 of 46 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Connecticut, so $39,085 — the adjusted value of that $50,230 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 349 of 482 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 $51,830 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $38,470 at the tenth percentile, $61,300 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Connecticut costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $39,085 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Connecticut's own levy, $40,527 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 46 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 Connecticut is $51,830. 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 ($38,470 to $61,300) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Connecticut rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Connecticut's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $39,085 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $40,527 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Connecticut 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.