Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians in Mississippi
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,706
after federal, FICA and Mississippi tax
Tax takes
$9,324
19.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,487
Mississippi costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Mississippi — 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
$49,030
Kept after tax
$39,706
Worth in national money
$45,487
State rank
40
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Mississippi. The middle earner gets $49,030. That is 40 of 47 states, and about 13.3% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Mississippi, this sits in the middle: 239 of 486 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Mississippi is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $49,030 the take-home is $39,706; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $45,487 would nationally. The average comes to $50,290, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For farm equipment mechanics and service technicians, Mississippi sits in the lower band at $49,030, ranking 40 of 47 and trailing the national median by about 13.3%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Farm equipment mechanics and service technicians ranks 239 of 486 occupations in Mississippi 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.
- Post-tax income for farm equipment mechanics and service technicians in Mississippi, on $49,030, is $39,706 — equivalent to $45,487 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $50,290 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,030 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,850 |
| This salary | $49,030 |
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 Mississippi | $39,706 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,576 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,703 |
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 | $46,704 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,269 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,030 as a midpoint for Mississippi, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,870 and the ninetieth is $63,850 — 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 Mississippi's $39,706, worked from $49,030. 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 239 of 486.
- Two cautions on $45,487, the adjusted value of that $49,030 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Mississippi. 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 239 of 486 locally.
- The Mississippi median of $49,030 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,870 to $63,850. 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 Mississippi take-home of $39,706, on $49,030 for work ranking 239 of 486 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 239 of 486 in the state.
- This $45,487 adjusted figure, worked from $49,030, 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 239 of 486 in the state. The occupation ranks 239 of 486 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $36,870 at the bottom tenth to $63,850 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 Mississippi sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $45,487 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Mississippi's own levy, $39,706 remains.
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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($36,870 to $63,850) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Mississippi rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Mississippi'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 $45,487 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 $39,706 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Mississippi 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.