Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall in Alabama
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,254
after federal, FICA and Alabama tax
Tax takes
$9,486
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,630
Alabama costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Alabama — 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
$48,740
Kept after tax
$39,254
Worth in national money
$43,630
State rank
25
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Alabama pays this job around $48,740 at the midpoint, 25 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 264 among 482 occupations Alabama publishes pay for.
- Alabama is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $48,740 the take-home is $39,254; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $43,630 would nationally. The average comes to $49,400, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall the Alabama median is $48,740, ranking 25 of 48 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.
- Position 264 of 482 in Alabama places insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Post-tax income for insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall in Alabama, on $48,740, is $39,254 — equivalent to $43,630 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $49,400 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,620 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,740 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,270 |
| This salary | $48,740 |
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 Alabama | $39,254 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,343 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,086 |
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 | $46,141 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,313 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Alabama earn less than $48,740. The published range is $36,620 up to $61,270, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alabama's $39,254, worked from $48,740. 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 264 of 482.
- Two cautions on $43,630, the adjusted value of that $48,740 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Alabama. 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 264 of 482 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall in Alabama the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,620 to $61,270. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Alabama take-home of $39,254, on $48,740 for work ranking 264 of 482 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 264 of 482 in the state.
- This $43,630 adjusted figure, worked from $48,740, 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 264 of 482 in the state. The occupation ranks 264 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,620 at the tenth percentile, $61,270 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Alabama sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $43,630 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 Alabama adds its own income tax on top — which is why $39,254 of this wage survives to your account.
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 48 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 ($36,620 to $61,270) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Alabama rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Alabama'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 $43,630 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 $39,254 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Alabama 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.