Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,910
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$5,091
13.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,837
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$37,000
Kept after tax
$31,910
Worth in national money
$32,837
State rank
40
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $37,000, ranking 40 of 50 states — about 6.64% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Measured against other jobs in Texas, this one sits low: 424 of 493 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $37,000, tax leaves $31,910, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $32,837 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $37,840, since top earners drag the number up.
- Texas ranks 40 of 50 for helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers, with a median of $37,000 — about 6.64% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers occupies position 424 of 493 in Texas's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers — median $37,000 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $31,910 retained, $32,837 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $37,840 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 | $24,100 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $49,640 |
| This salary | $37,000 |
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 Texas | $31,910 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $31,910 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,992 |
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 | $37,000 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,565 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 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 Texas earn under $37,000 and half over. The published range runs $24,100 at the tenth percentile to $49,640 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $31,910 take-home in Texas comes from $37,000. 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 424 of 493.
- Two cautions on $32,837, the adjusted value of that $37,000 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 424 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $24,100 to $49,640; 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 $31,910, from $37,000, assumes a single Texas 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 424 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 40 of 50 for it.
- This $32,837 adjusted figure, worked from $37,000, 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 424 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 424 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $24,100 at the bottom tenth to $49,640 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $32,837 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $31,910 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 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 ($24,100 to $49,640) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Texas'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 $32,837 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $31,910 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.