Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in North Carolina
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,412
after federal, FICA and North Carolina tax
Tax takes
$9,918
18.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,114
North Carolina costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in North Carolina — 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
$53,330
Kept after tax
$43,412
Worth in national money
$46,114
State rank
3
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. North Carolina pays this job a middle wage of $53,330, ranking 3 of 46 states and sitting about 11.76% above the national middle.
- Against other work in North Carolina, this sits in the middle: 255 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- North Carolina is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $53,330 the take-home is $43,412; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $46,114 would nationally. The average lands at $50,690, below the middle of the range.
- North Carolina's median for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic is $53,330, about 11.76% above the national figure and 3 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 255 of 489 occupations in North Carolina 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.
- Post-tax income for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in North Carolina, on $53,330, is $43,412 — equivalent to $46,114 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $50,690 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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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 | $53,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,390 |
| This salary | $53,330 |
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 North Carolina | $43,412 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $45,031 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$225 |
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 | $51,315 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$273 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 94 |
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 extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in North Carolina earn under $53,330 and half over. The published range runs $38,080 at the tenth percentile to $60,390 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In North Carolina the take-home figure of $43,412, from $53,330, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 255 of 489 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $46,114, the adjusted value of that $53,330 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of North Carolina. 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 255 of 489 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in North Carolina, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $38,080 to $60,390; 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.
- Take-home for North Carolina is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $43,412 from $53,330. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 255 of 489 locally.
- This $46,114 adjusted figure, worked from $53,330, 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 255 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 255 of 489 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 $50,690 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $38,080 and the top tenth $60,390, so most people doing this work in North Carolina sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $46,114.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; North Carolina then takes its own share, leaving $43,412.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 46 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 North Carolina is $50,690. 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 ($38,080 to $60,390) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to North Carolina rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
North Carolina'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 $46,114 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 $43,412 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and North Carolina 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.