Highway Maintenance Workers in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,506
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$15,824
24.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,275
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
$65,330
Kept after tax
$49,506
Worth in national money
$47,275
State rank
1
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Oregon pays highway maintenance workers a middle wage of $65,330, ranking 1 of 49 states and sitting about 29.98% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Oregon, this sits in the middle: 236 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $65,330, tax leaves $49,506 — and because Oregon is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $47,275 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $63,650.
- Oregon's median for highway maintenance workers is $65,330, about 29.98% above the national figure and 1 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Highway maintenance workers ranks 236 of 489 occupations in Oregon 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 tax, $49,506 remains from the Oregon median of $65,330 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $47,275 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $63,650 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Highway Maintenance Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,810 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $65,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $70,320 |
| This salary | $65,330 |
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 | $49,506 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,673 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,987 |
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 | $58,900 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,869 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $65,330 as a midpoint for Oregon, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $50,810 and the ninetieth is $70,320 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Oregon's $49,506, worked from $65,330. 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 236 of 489.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $47,275 uses one figure for the whole of Oregon. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 489 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 236.
- The Oregon median of $65,330 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $50,810 to $70,320. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Oregon take-home of $49,506, on $65,330 for work ranking 236 of 489 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 236 of 489 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $47,275, worked from $65,330, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Oregon address, on work sitting at 236 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $50,810 at the bottom tenth to $70,320 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Oregon run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $47,275 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Oregon's own levy, $49,506 remains.
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($50,810 to $70,320) 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 $47,275 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 $49,506 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.