Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,941
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$7,299
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,253
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$48,240
Kept after tax
$40,941
Worth in national money
$44,253
State rank
27
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Tennessee sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $48,240, ranking 27 of 47 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Tennessee, this sits in the middle: 297 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 $48,240 you keep $40,941 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $44,253 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $49,330, since top earners drag the number up.
- Tennessee occupies the middle band for jewelers and precious stone and metal workers: a median of $48,240, ranking 27 of 47. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers ranks 297 of 491 occupations in Tennessee 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 Tennessee is $40,941 after the full tax stack, from $48,240. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $44,253 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $49,330 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,140 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,240 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,230 |
| This salary | $48,240 |
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 Tennessee | $40,941 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,941 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,122 |
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 | $48,240 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,567 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
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 jewelers and precious stone and metal workers in Tennessee earn under $48,240 and half over. The published range runs $31,140 at the tenth percentile to $77,230 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Tennessee the take-home figure of $40,941, from $48,240, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 297 of 491 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $44,253, the adjusted value of that $48,240 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Tennessee. 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 297 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for jewelers and precious stone and metal workers in Tennessee, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $31,140 to $77,230; 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.
- Take-home for Tennessee is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $40,941 from $48,240. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 297 of 491 locally.
- This $44,253 adjusted figure, worked from $48,240, 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 297 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 297 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $31,140 and the top tenth $77,230 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Tennessee sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $44,253 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $40,941 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($31,140) and the ninetieth ($77,230) 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?
Tennessee'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 $44,253 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $40,941 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.