Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other in Kentucky
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,729
after federal, FICA and Kentucky tax
Tax takes
$9,581
18.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,126
Kentucky costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Kentucky — 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
$51,310
Kept after tax
$41,729
Worth in national money
$46,126
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Kentucky pays this job a middle wage of $51,310, ranking 17 of 51 states and sitting about 4.23% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Kentucky, this sits in the middle: 265 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $51,310 you keep $41,729 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $46,126 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $55,040, since top earners drag the number up.
- Kentucky's median for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other is $51,310, about 4.23% above the national figure and 17 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other ranks 265 of 491 occupations in Kentucky 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 in Kentucky is $41,729 after the full tax stack, from $51,310. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $46,126 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $55,040 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,920 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,310 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,780 |
| This salary | $51,310 |
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 Kentucky | $41,729 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,408 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,457 |
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 | $49,221 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,762 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
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 installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other in Kentucky earn under $51,310 and half over. The published range runs $36,920 at the tenth percentile to $81,780 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $41,729 take-home in Kentucky comes from $51,310. 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 265 of 491.
- Two cautions on $46,126, the adjusted value of that $51,310 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Kentucky. 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 265 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other in Kentucky, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,920 to $81,780; 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 $41,729, from $51,310, assumes a single Kentucky 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 265 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 17 of 51 for it.
- This $46,126 adjusted figure, worked from $51,310, 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 265 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 265 of 491 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 $55,040, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $36,920, the highest tenth $81,780, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Kentucky sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $46,126 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Kentucky adds its own income tax on top — which is why $41,729 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 Kentucky is $55,040. 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 ($36,920) and the ninetieth ($81,780) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Kentucky'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 $46,126 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 $41,729 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Kentucky 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.