Highway Maintenance Workers in New York
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,157
after federal, FICA and New York tax
Tax takes
$11,053
20.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,028
New York costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New York — 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
$55,210
Kept after tax
$44,157
Worth in national money
$41,028
State rank
15
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for highway maintenance workers is strong here. New York's middle earner gets $55,210, putting the state 15 of 49 — about 9.85% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Highway maintenance workers ranks 342 among 493 occupations New York publishes pay for.
- New York is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $55,210 the take-home is $44,157; in national-average money that behaves like $41,028. The average comes to $57,190, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For highway maintenance workers, New York sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $55,210, ranking 15 of 49 and running about 9.85% 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 342 of 493 in New York places highway maintenance 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.
- Take-home for highway maintenance workers in New York, on $55,210, is $44,157; deflated by the state's price level, $41,028. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $57,190 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Highway Maintenance Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,150 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $55,210 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,690 |
| This salary | $55,210 |
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 New York | $44,157 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $46,541 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,866 |
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 | $52,243 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,304 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $55,210 as a midpoint for New York, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $44,150 and the ninetieth is $75,690 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New York the take-home figure of $44,157, from $55,210, 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 342 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $41,028, the adjusted value of that $55,210 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New York. 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 342 of 493 locally.
- The New York median of $55,210 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $44,150 to $75,690. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for New York is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $44,157 from $55,210. 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 342 of 493 locally.
- This $41,028 adjusted figure, worked from $55,210, 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 342 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 342 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $57,190, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $44,150 at the tenth percentile, $75,690 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $41,028 of national purchasing power.
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 New York adds its own income tax on top — which is why $44,157 of this wage survives to your account.
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 49 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 New York is $57,190. 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 ($44,150 to $75,690) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to New York rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New York's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $41,028 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 $44,157 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New York 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.