Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,100
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$9,050
15.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,498
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$57,150
Kept after tax
$48,100
Worth in national money
$49,498
State rank
21
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $57,150, ranking 21 of 47 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 237 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $57,150 the take-home is $48,100, which is worth about $49,498 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $57,930, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas occupies the middle band for farm equipment mechanics and service technicians: a median of $57,150, ranking 21 of 47. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Farm equipment mechanics and service technicians ranks 237 of 493 occupations in Texas 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.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for farm equipment mechanics and service technicians on its $57,150 median: $48,100 retained after tax becomes $49,498 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $57,930 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,530 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,700 |
| This salary | $57,150 |
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 Texas | $48,100 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $48,100 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,003 |
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 | $57,150 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,867 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $57,150. The published range is $36,530 up to $78,700, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $48,100 take-home in Texas comes from $57,150. 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 237 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $49,498 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 237.
- Reported values are medians; for farm equipment mechanics and service technicians in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,530 to $78,700. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $48,100, from $57,150, assumes a single Texas 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 237 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 21 of 47 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $49,498, worked from $57,150, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Texas address, on work sitting at 237 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $36,530, the highest tenth $78,700, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $49,498.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $48,100 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($36,530) and the ninetieth ($78,700) 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?
Texas'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 $49,498 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $48,100 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.