Industrial Production Managers
What the pay figures show
- Delaware comes first for industrial production managers on every measure. $153,000 on paper. Still first after tax. Still first at $126,375 once you adjust for what things cost. When the headline and the reality agree, say so plainly.
- For industrial production managers, Delaware's $153,000 median is the highest nominally, after tax, and after regional price adjustment, at $126,375. Concordance across all three measures is uncommon and worth stating explicitly, because the absence of a reordering is itself the finding for this occupation.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$126,060
People doing it
246,250
Highest paid
$153,000
DE
Best off, really
$126,375
WY, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$78,000
Highest tenth
$205,520
Lowest, really
$79,204
OR
States with data
50
National average
$134,170
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
90.85%
WY, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $79,204 and $126,375. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- Roughly 246,250 people hold this job nationally, earning $126,060 in the middle. A solid, ordinary-sized job.
- This job is not published everywhere — 50 jurisdictions have a figure, with $126,060 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. Delaware tops the ones that are.
- Wages for industrial production managers cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $79,204 to $126,375. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- 246,250 are employed nationally in industrial production managers, placing it well inside the reported range without approaching the highest-headcount occupations.
- 50 jurisdictions carry a published median for industrial production managers. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Industrial Production Managers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $78,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $126,060 |
| Top tenth earn over | $205,520 |
| This salary | $126,060 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Industrial Production Managers
The national median for this job
$126,060around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $78,000 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $126,060 |
| Top tenth | $205,520 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Industrial Production Managers, state by state
The national median for this job
50states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Iowa · $106,510 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Delaware · $153,000 |
| Spread | $46,490 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $130,890 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $134,695 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| WY | $151,490 | $114,809 | $126,375 |
| LA | $133,210 | $98,705 | $111,727 |
| DE | $153,000 | $106,975 | $107,780 |
| NH | $146,590 | $111,460 | $105,805 |
| TX | $130,890 | $100,729 | $103,658 |
| WA | $145,210 | $110,517 | $101,801 |
| AR | $118,120 | $88,016 | $101,743 |
| NM | $124,670 | $91,700 | $101,454 |
| ND | $116,050 | $89,467 | $101,011 |
| CO | $141,020 | $102,157 | $100,764 |
| KS | $125,750 | $90,488 | $100,581 |
| OK | $120,570 | $88,726 | $100,498 |
| MS | $118,660 | $87,653 | $100,413 |
| TN | $119,430 | $92,849 | $100,361 |
| AL | $122,520 | $89,954 | $99,983 |
| SC | $126,880 | $92,344 | $99,106 |
| NC | $125,940 | $92,830 | $98,609 |
| IN | $121,500 | $90,751 | $98,445 |
| MT | $120,690 | $88,277 | $97,821 |
| MA | $148,050 | $105,376 | $97,356 |
| NJ | $147,260 | $104,728 | $96,184 |
| GA | $127,820 | $92,852 | $96,021 |
| SD | $107,490 | $84,449 | $95,862 |
| MO | $117,660 | $87,011 | $94,823 |
| MI | $120,660 | $88,837 | $94,323 |
| IL | $127,270 | $92,100 | $93,167 |
| CT | $134,780 | $96,551 | $93,116 |
| KY | $112,250 | $83,987 | $92,836 |
| AZ | $124,810 | $93,856 | $92,830 |
| WV | $111,760 | $83,224 | $92,706 |
| MD | $132,540 | $95,732 | $92,081 |
| ME | $124,810 | $89,292 | $91,962 |
| VA | $128,230 | $92,299 | $91,612 |
| OH | $109,340 | $83,460 | $90,903 |
| NV | $112,270 | $87,812 | $90,546 |
| IA | $106,510 | $80,324 | $90,489 |
| RI | $124,120 | $91,559 | $90,284 |
| MN | $123,580 | $88,853 | $90,282 |
| FL | $119,870 | $93,159 | $90,050 |
| UT | $115,290 | $84,806 | $89,268 |
| NE | $107,200 | $80,071 | $88,598 |
| AK | $113,280 | $88,522 | $87,030 |
| ID | $107,340 | $79,508 | $86,965 |
| NY | $130,470 | $93,525 | $86,899 |
| VT | $114,150 | $83,711 | $86,626 |
| PA | $109,140 | $82,259 | $84,369 |
| CA | $132,620 | $93,670 | $83,202 |
| HI | $124,650 | $88,434 | $81,424 |
| DC | $124,420 | $88,700 | $80,051 |
| OR | $119,420 | $82,943 | $79,204 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for industrial production managers as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $126,060, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for industrial production managers, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is Wyoming, at $114,809.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for industrial production managers. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits Oregon, on $79,204.
- These are distribution medians for industrial production managers, with a national value of $126,060. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- Retained-pay figures for industrial production managers model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $114,809, which leads in Wyoming.
- Real-terms results for industrial production managers rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; Oregon anchors the distribution at $79,204. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.