First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers in Pennsylvania
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,250
after federal, FICA and Pennsylvania tax
Tax takes
$17,150
21.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,846
Pennsylvania costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Pennsylvania — 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
$79,400
Kept after tax
$62,250
Worth in national money
$63,846
State rank
26
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Pennsylvania pays this job around $79,400 at the midpoint, 26 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 492 occupations Pennsylvania reports, this job comes in at 120 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $79,400, tax leaves $62,250, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $63,846 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $82,790, since top earners drag the number up.
- For first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers the Pennsylvania median is $79,400, ranking 26 of 51 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.
- First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers ranks 120 of 492 occupations by median in Pennsylvania, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Because Pennsylvania sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers — median $79,400 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $62,250 retained, $63,846 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $82,790 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 | $50,900 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $120,850 |
| This salary | $79,400 |
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 Pennsylvania | $62,250 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,688 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,722 |
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 | $75,935 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,760 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers in Pennsylvania earn under $79,400 and half over. The published range runs $50,900 at the tenth percentile to $120,850 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Pennsylvania the take-home figure of $62,250, from $79,400, 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 120 of 492 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $63,846, the adjusted value of that $79,400 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Pennsylvania. 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 120 of 492 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for first-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers in Pennsylvania, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $50,900 to $120,850; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Take-home for Pennsylvania is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $62,250 from $79,400. 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 120 of 492 locally.
- This $63,846 adjusted figure, worked from $79,400, 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 120 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 120 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $82,790, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $50,900 at the bottom tenth to $120,850 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Pennsylvania sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $63,846 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 Pennsylvania's own levy, $62,250 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 Pennsylvania is $82,790. 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 ($50,900) and the ninetieth ($120,850) 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?
Pennsylvania'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 $63,846 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 $62,250 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Pennsylvania 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.