Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in Utah
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,371
after federal, FICA and Utah tax
Tax takes
$9,629
19.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,442
Utah costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Utah — 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
$49,000
Kept after tax
$39,371
Worth in national money
$41,442
State rank
19
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Utah pays this job around $49,000 at the midpoint, 19 of 46 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 316 among 487 occupations Utah publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $49,000 you keep $39,371 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $41,442 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $51,240, since top earners drag the number up.
- For extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic the Utah median is $49,000, ranking 19 of 46 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 316 of 487 in Utah 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.
- Retained pay in Utah is $39,371 after the full tax stack, from $49,000. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $41,442 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $51,240 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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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 | $35,940 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $71,850 |
| This salary | $49,000 |
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 Utah | $39,371 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,552 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,317 |
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 | $46,286 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,593 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 95 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,000 as a midpoint for Utah, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $35,940 and the ninetieth is $71,850 — 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 Utah's $39,371, worked from $49,000. 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 316 of 487.
- One number stands for prices across all of Utah, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $41,442, the adjusted value of that $49,000 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 316 of 487 in the state.
- The Utah median of $49,000 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $35,940 to $71,850. 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 Utah take-home of $39,371, on $49,000 for work ranking 316 of 487 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 316 of 487 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Utah, so $41,442 — the adjusted value of that $49,000 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 316 of 487 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $51,240, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $35,940 and the top tenth $71,850 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Utah sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $41,442 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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; Utah then takes its own share, leaving $39,371.
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 Utah is $51,240. 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 ($35,940) and the ninetieth ($71,850) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Utah'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 $41,442 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 $39,371 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Utah 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.