Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,965
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$10,435
18.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,352
Colorado costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Colorado — 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
$55,400
Kept after tax
$44,965
Worth in national money
$44,352
State rank
24
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Colorado pays this job around $55,400 at the midpoint, 24 of 47 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Colorado, this sits in the middle: 308 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $55,400, tax leaves $44,965, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $44,352 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $56,710, since top earners drag the number up.
- For farm equipment mechanics and service technicians the Colorado median is $55,400, ranking 24 of 47 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.
- Farm equipment mechanics and service technicians ranks 308 of 491 occupations in Colorado 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.
- Because Colorado sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for farm equipment mechanics and service technicians — median $55,400 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $44,965 retained, $44,352 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $56,710 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $55,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,190 |
| This salary | $55,400 |
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 Colorado | $44,965 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $46,694 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,700 |
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 | $53,248 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,474 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Colorado earn less than $55,400. The published range is $31,200 up to $83,190, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $44,965 take-home in Colorado comes from $55,400. 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 308 of 491.
- Two cautions on $44,352, the adjusted value of that $55,400 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Colorado. 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 308 of 491 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for farm equipment mechanics and service technicians in Colorado the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $31,200 to $83,190. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $44,965, from $55,400, assumes a single Colorado 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 308 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 24 of 47 for it.
- This $44,352 adjusted figure, worked from $55,400, 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 308 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 308 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $31,200, the highest tenth $83,190, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $44,352 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 Colorado adds its own income tax on top — which is why $44,965 of this wage survives to your account.
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 47 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($31,200) and the ninetieth ($83,190) 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?
Colorado's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $44,352 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 $44,965 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Colorado 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.