Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in New Jersey
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,023
after federal, FICA and New Jersey tax
Tax takes
$9,157
17.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,595
New Jersey costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New Jersey — 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
$51,180
Kept after tax
$42,023
Worth in national money
$38,595
State rank
6
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Jersey's middle earner gets $51,180, putting the state 6 of 46 — about 7.25% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 350 among 490 occupations New Jersey publishes pay for.
- New Jersey is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $51,180 the take-home is $42,023; in national-average money that behaves like $38,595. The average comes to $52,380, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, New Jersey sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $51,180, ranking 6 of 46 and running about 7.25% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 350 of 490 in New Jersey places extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic 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.
- Take-home for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in New Jersey, on $51,180, is $42,023; deflated by the state's price level, $38,595. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $52,380 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 | $38,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,180 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,430 |
| This salary | $51,180 |
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 New Jersey | $42,023 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,303 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,967 |
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 | $49,587 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,217 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in New Jersey earn less than $51,180. The published range is $38,080 up to $63,430, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $42,023 take-home in New Jersey comes from $51,180. 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 350 of 490.
- Two cautions on $38,595, the adjusted value of that $51,180 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New Jersey. 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 350 of 490 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in New Jersey the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $38,080 to $63,430. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $42,023, from $51,180, assumes a single New Jersey 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 350 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 6 of 46 for it.
- This $38,595 adjusted figure, worked from $51,180, 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 350 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 350 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $38,080 and the top tenth $63,430, so most people doing this work in New Jersey sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $38,595 of national purchasing power.
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 New Jersey's own levy, $42,023 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 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 ($38,080 to $63,430) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to New Jersey rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New Jersey's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $38,595 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 $42,023 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New Jersey 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.