Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,786
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$9,604
19.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,490
Virginia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Virginia — 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
$49,390
Kept after tax
$39,786
Worth in national money
$39,490
State rank
8
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Virginia's middle earner gets $49,390, putting the state 8 of 45 — about 7.93% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 323 among 489 occupations Virginia publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $49,390 the take-home is $39,786, which is worth about $39,490 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $50,180, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders, Virginia sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $49,390, ranking 8 of 45 and running about 7.93% 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 323 of 489 in Virginia places extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders 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.
- Virginia's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders on its $49,390 median: $39,786 retained after tax becomes $39,490 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $50,180 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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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 | $37,790 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,390 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,830 |
| This salary | $49,390 |
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 Virginia | $39,786 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,865 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,592 |
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 | $46,802 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,344 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,390 as a midpoint for Virginia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,790 and the ninetieth is $63,830 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Virginia the take-home figure of $39,786, from $49,390, 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 323 of 489 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $39,490, the adjusted value of that $49,390 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Virginia. 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 323 of 489 locally.
- The Virginia median of $49,390 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,790 to $63,830. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Virginia is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $39,786 from $49,390. 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 323 of 489 locally.
- This $39,490 adjusted figure, worked from $49,390, 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 323 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 323 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $37,790 and the top tenth $63,830, so most people doing this work in Virginia sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Virginia costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $39,490 rather than its face figure.
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 Virginia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $39,786 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 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 ($37,790 to $63,830) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Virginia rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Virginia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $39,490 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 $39,786 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Virginia 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.