First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers in Missouri
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,626
after federal, FICA and Missouri tax
Tax takes
$16,844
21.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$66,069
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
$77,470
Kept after tax
$60,626
Worth in national money
$66,069
State rank
36
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Missouri pays this job a middle wage of $77,470, 36 of 51 states and about 2.99% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Missouri this is well-paid work. Of 488 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 113 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $77,470 you keep $60,626 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $66,069 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $82,230, since top earners drag the number up.
- Missouri's $77,470 median for first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers places it 36 of 51 states, about 2.99% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Ranked against every occupation Missouri publishes a median for, first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers sits 113 of 488 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Retained pay in Missouri is $60,626 after the full tax stack, from $77,470. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $66,069 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $82,230 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,420 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,470 |
| Top tenth earn over | $121,940 |
| This salary | $77,470 |
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 | $60,626 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,330 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$898 |
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 | $73,627 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,240 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Missouri earn less than $77,470. The published range is $48,420 up to $121,940, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Missouri the take-home figure of $60,626, from $77,470, 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 113 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $66,069, the adjusted value of that $77,470 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 113 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers in Missouri the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $48,420 to $121,940. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Missouri is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $60,626 from $77,470. 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 113 of 488 locally.
- This $66,069 adjusted figure, worked from $77,470, 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 113 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 113 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $82,230 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $48,420 and the top tenth $121,940 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $66,069 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 Missouri's own levy, $60,626 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Missouri is $82,230. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($48,420) and the ninetieth ($121,940) 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?
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 $66,069 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 $60,626 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.