Home Appliance Repairers in Maryland
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$46,286
after federal, FICA and Maryland tax
Tax takes
$11,574
20.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,521
Maryland costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Maryland — 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
$57,860
Kept after tax
$46,286
Worth in national money
$44,521
State rank
11
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for home appliance repairers is strong here. Maryland's middle earner gets $57,860, putting the state 11 of 50 — about 13.47% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Maryland, this sits in the middle: 293 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $57,860 the take-home is $46,286. But Maryland costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $44,521 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $60,830, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For home appliance repairers, Maryland sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $57,860, ranking 11 of 50 and running about 13.47% 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.
- Home appliance repairers ranks 293 of 489 occupations in Maryland 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and Maryland income tax is $46,286 for home appliance repairers, from $57,860. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $44,521. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $60,830 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Home Appliance Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $88,060 |
| This salary | $57,860 |
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 Maryland | $46,286 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,671 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,565 |
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 | $54,892 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,730 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
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 home appliance repairers in Maryland earn under $57,860 and half over. The published range runs $42,640 at the tenth percentile to $88,060 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Maryland's $46,286, worked from $57,860. 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 293 of 489.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $44,521 uses one figure for the whole of Maryland. 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 293.
- Figures are distribution medians for home appliance repairers in Maryland, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $42,640 to $88,060; 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.
- The Maryland take-home of $46,286, on $57,860 for work ranking 293 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 293 of 489 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $44,521, worked from $57,860, 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 Maryland address, on work sitting at 293 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $60,830, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $42,640 and the top tenth $88,060 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Maryland costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $44,521 rather than its face figure.
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; Maryland then takes its own share, leaving $46,286.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 Maryland is $60,830. 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 ($42,640) and the ninetieth ($88,060) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Maryland's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $44,521 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 $46,286 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Maryland 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.