Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, & Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, & Tenders, Metal & Plastic in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,750
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$13,540
23.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,778
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$57,290
Kept after tax
$43,750
Worth in national money
$41,778
State rank
1
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Oregon's middle earner gets $57,290, putting the state 1 of 48 — about 23.07% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 301 among 489 occupations Oregon publishes pay for.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $57,290 the take-home is $43,750. But Oregon costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $41,778 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $58,530, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For grinding, lapping, polishing, & buffing machine tool setters, operators, & tenders, metal & plastic, Oregon sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $57,290, ranking 1 of 48 and running about 23.07% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 301 of 489 in Oregon places grinding, lapping, polishing, & buffing machine tool setters, operators, & tenders, metal & plastic 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 after federal, FICA and Oregon income tax is $43,750 for grinding, lapping, polishing, & buffing machine tool setters, operators, & tenders, metal & plastic, from $57,290. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $41,778. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $58,530 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, & Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, & Tenders, Metal & Plastic
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,330 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,290 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,290 |
| This salary | $57,290 |
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 Oregon | $43,750 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,213 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,837 |
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 | $51,736 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,478 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Oregon earn less than $57,290. The published range is $41,330 up to $75,290, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Oregon the take-home figure of $43,750, from $57,290, 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 301 of 489 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $41,778, the adjusted value of that $57,290 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Oregon. 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 301 of 489 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for grinding, lapping, polishing, & buffing machine tool setters, operators, & tenders, metal & plastic in Oregon the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $41,330 to $75,290. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Oregon is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $43,750 from $57,290. 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 301 of 489 locally.
- This $41,778 adjusted figure, worked from $57,290, 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 301 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 301 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $41,330 and the top tenth $75,290, so most people doing this work in Oregon sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Oregon costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $41,778 rather than its face figure.
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 Oregon adds its own income tax on top — which is why $43,750 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($41,330 to $75,290) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Oregon rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $41,778 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $43,750 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.