Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians in Iowa
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,098
after federal, FICA and Iowa tax
Tax takes
$12,312
19.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,690
Iowa costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Iowa — 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
$64,410
Kept after tax
$52,098
Worth in national money
$58,690
State rank
26
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Iowa pays this job around $64,410 at the midpoint, 26 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Iowa, this sits in the middle: 175 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Iowa does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $64,410 you keep $52,098, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $58,690 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $68,650, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For industrial engineering technologists and technicians the Iowa median is $64,410, ranking 26 of 45 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Industrial engineering technologists and technicians ranks 175 of 493 occupations in Iowa 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 federal, FICA and Iowa income tax, retained pay for industrial engineering technologists and technicians on $64,410 is $52,098. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $58,690 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $68,650 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $51,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,410 |
| Top tenth earn over | $86,390 |
| This salary | $64,410 |
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 Iowa | $52,098 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,933 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,189 |
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 | $62,125 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,108 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 89 |
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 industrial engineering technologists and technicians in Iowa earn under $64,410 and half over. The published range runs $51,550 at the tenth percentile to $86,390 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $52,098 take-home in Iowa comes from $64,410. 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 175 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $58,690 uses one figure for the whole of Iowa. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 175.
- Figures are distribution medians for industrial engineering technologists and technicians in Iowa, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $51,550 to $86,390; 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 $52,098, from $64,410, assumes a single Iowa 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 175 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 26 of 45 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $58,690, worked from $64,410, 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 Iowa address, on work sitting at 175 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $68,650 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $51,550 at the tenth percentile, $86,390 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Iowa sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $58,690 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Iowa's own levy, $52,098 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 45 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 Iowa is $68,650. 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 ($51,550 to $86,390) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Iowa rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Iowa'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 $58,690 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 $52,098 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Iowa 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.