First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers in North Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,313
after federal, FICA and North Dakota tax
Tax takes
$14,037
18.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$70,352
North Dakota costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in North Dakota — 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
$76,350
Kept after tax
$62,313
Worth in national money
$70,352
State rank
19
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. North Dakota is 19 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $76,350. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 128 among 460 occupations North Dakota publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $76,350 you keep $62,313 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $70,352 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $80,420, since top earners drag the number up.
- North Dakota ranks 19 of 51 for first-line supervisors of production and operating workers at $76,350. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Position 128 of 460 in North Dakota places first-line supervisors of production and operating workers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in North Dakota is $62,313 after the full tax stack, from $76,350. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $70,352 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $80,420 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $52,450 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $76,350 |
| Top tenth earn over | $129,200 |
| This salary | $76,350 |
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 North Dakota | $62,313 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $62,542 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,992 |
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 | $76,024 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$8,277 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 89 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in North Dakota earn less than $76,350. The published range is $52,450 up to $129,200, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In North Dakota the take-home figure of $62,313, from $76,350, 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 128 of 460 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $70,352, the adjusted value of that $76,350 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of North Dakota. 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 128 of 460 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of production and operating workers in North Dakota the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $52,450 to $129,200. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for North Dakota is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $62,313 from $76,350. 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 128 of 460 locally.
- This $70,352 adjusted figure, worked from $76,350, 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 128 of 460 in the state. The occupation ranks 128 of 460 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 $80,420 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 $52,450 and the top tenth $129,200 — 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 North Dakota sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $70,352 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 North Dakota adds its own income tax on top — which is why $62,313 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 North Dakota is $80,420. 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 ($52,450) and the ninetieth ($129,200) 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?
North Dakota'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 $70,352 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 $62,313 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and North Dakota 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.