Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,280
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$11,370
22.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,554
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$49,650
Kept after tax
$38,280
Worth in national money
$36,554
State rank
15
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Oregon is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $49,650, which ranks 15 of 46 states with published figures. That is about 4.04% above the national middle.
- Against 489 occupations Oregon publishes, this job lands at 368. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Oregon is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $49,650 the take-home is $38,280; in national-average money that behaves like $36,554. The average comes to $55,960, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Oregon ranks 15 of 46 states publishing a median for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, at $49,650 — about 4.04% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Within Oregon, this work ranks 368 of 489 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Take-home for extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in Oregon, on $49,650, is $38,280; deflated by the state's price level, $36,554. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $55,960 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 | $39,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,650 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,720 |
| This salary | $49,650 |
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 Oregon | $38,280 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,074 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,743 |
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 | $44,928 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,155 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,650 as a midpoint for Oregon, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $39,010 and the ninetieth is $78,720 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $38,280 take-home in Oregon comes from $49,650. 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 368 of 489.
- One number stands for prices across all of Oregon, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $36,554, the adjusted value of that $49,650 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 368 of 489 in the state.
- The Oregon median of $49,650 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $39,010 to $78,720. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $38,280, from $49,650, assumes a single Oregon 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 368 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 15 of 46 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Oregon, so $36,554 — the adjusted value of that $49,650 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 368 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 $55,960 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $39,010 at the bottom tenth to $78,720 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $36,554 of national purchasing power.
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 Oregon adds its own income tax on top — which is why $38,280 of this wage survives to your account.
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.
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 Oregon is $55,960. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($39,010) and the ninetieth ($78,720) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $36,554 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 $38,280 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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.