Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,391
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$6,249
17.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,428
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$36,640
Kept after tax
$30,391
Worth in national money
$31,428
State rank
42
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Georgia. The middle earner gets $36,640. That is 42 of 50 states, and about 7.54% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 492 occupations Georgia publishes, this job lands at 431. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $36,640 you keep $30,391 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $31,428 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $38,600, since top earners drag the number up.
- For helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers, Georgia sits in the lower band at $36,640, ranking 42 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 7.54%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Georgia, this work ranks 431 of 492 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay in Georgia is $30,391 after the full tax stack, from $36,640. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $31,428 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $38,600 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $22,560 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $36,640 |
| Top tenth earn over | $56,350 |
| This salary | $36,640 |
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 Georgia | $30,391 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $31,620 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,111 |
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 | $35,110 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,344 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
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 helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers in Georgia earn under $36,640 and half over. The published range runs $22,560 at the tenth percentile to $56,350 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $30,391 take-home in Georgia comes from $36,640. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 431 of 492.
- Two cautions on $31,428, the adjusted value of that $36,640 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Georgia. 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 431 of 492 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers in Georgia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $22,560 to $56,350; 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.
- Retained pay of $30,391, from $36,640, assumes a single Georgia filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 431 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 42 of 50 for it.
- This $31,428 adjusted figure, worked from $36,640, 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 431 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 431 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 $38,600, 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 $22,560 at the bottom tenth to $56,350 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 Georgia sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $31,428 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Georgia then takes its own share, leaving $30,391.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Georgia is $38,600. 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 ($22,560) and the ninetieth ($56,350) 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?
Georgia'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 $31,428 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 $30,391 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.