Hazardous Materials Removal Workers in Missouri
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,842
after federal, FICA and Missouri tax
Tax takes
$11,278
19.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,137
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
$59,120
Kept after tax
$47,842
Worth in national money
$52,137
State rank
9
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Missouri's middle earner gets $59,120, putting the state 9 of 51 — about 19.56% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Missouri, this sits in the middle: 228 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Missouri does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $59,120 you keep $47,842, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $52,137 would elsewhere. The average is lower, $54,990, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For hazardous materials removal workers, Missouri sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $59,120, ranking 9 of 51 and running about 19.56% 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.
- Hazardous materials removal workers ranks 228 of 488 occupations in Missouri 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.
- After federal, FICA and Missouri income tax, retained pay for hazardous materials removal workers on $59,120 is $47,842. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $52,137 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $54,990 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Hazardous Materials Removal Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,280 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,120 |
| Top tenth earn over | $68,330 |
| This salary | $59,120 |
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 | $47,842 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,683 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,009 |
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 | $56,828 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,221 |
| 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 $59,120. The published range is $37,280 up to $68,330, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Missouri's $47,842, worked from $59,120. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 228 of 488.
- Two cautions on $52,137, the adjusted value of that $59,120 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 228 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for hazardous materials removal workers in Missouri the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $37,280 to $68,330. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Missouri take-home of $47,842, on $59,120 for work ranking 228 of 488 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 228 of 488 in the state.
- This $52,137 adjusted figure, worked from $59,120, 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 228 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 228 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $54,990, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $37,280 at the bottom tenth to $68,330 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Missouri is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $52,137 in national terms.
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 Missouri adds its own income tax on top — which is why $47,842 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 $54,990. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($37,280 to $68,330) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Missouri rather than a national figure.
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 $52,137 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 $47,842 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.