Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Missouri
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,028
after federal, FICA and Missouri tax
Tax takes
$8,442
17.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,532
Missouri costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Missouri — 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
$47,470
Kept after tax
$39,028
Worth in national money
$42,532
State rank
16
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Missouri pays this job around $47,470 at the midpoint, 16 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Missouri, this sits in the middle: 321 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $47,470 you keep $39,028 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $42,532 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $47,940, since top earners drag the number up.
- For extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders the Missouri median is $47,470, ranking 16 of 45 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.
- Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders ranks 321 of 488 occupations in Missouri 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.
- Retained pay in Missouri is $39,028 after the full tax stack, from $47,470. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $42,532 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $47,940 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,280 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,470 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,810 |
| This salary | $47,470 |
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 Missouri | $39,028 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,322 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,038 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
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 | $45,860 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,255 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $47,470 as a midpoint for Missouri, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,280 and the ninetieth is $61,810 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $39,028 take-home in Missouri comes from $47,470. 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 321 of 488.
- Two cautions on $42,532, the adjusted value of that $47,470 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Missouri. 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 321 of 488 locally.
- The Missouri median of $47,470 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,280 to $61,810. 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 $39,028, from $47,470, assumes a single Missouri 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 321 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 16 of 45 for it.
- This $42,532 adjusted figure, worked from $47,470, 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 321 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 321 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $33,280 at the bottom tenth to $61,810 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Missouri sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $42,532 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Missouri adds its own income tax on top — which is why $39,028 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($33,280 to $61,810) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Missouri rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Missouri'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 $42,532 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 $39,028 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Missouri 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.