Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand in Utah
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,339
after federal, FICA and Utah tax
Tax takes
$8,031
19.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,145
Utah costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Utah — 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
$42,370
Kept after tax
$34,339
Worth in national money
$36,145
State rank
21
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Utah is 21 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $42,370. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Utah this is lower-paid work. Of 487 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 390. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Here is where Utah does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $42,370 you keep $34,339, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $36,145 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $42,720, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Utah ranks 21 of 51 for laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand at $42,370. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation Utah reports, laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ranks 390 of 487, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- After federal, FICA and Utah income tax, retained pay for laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand on $42,370 is $34,339. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $36,145 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 $42,720 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,370 |
| Top tenth earn over | $54,790 |
| This salary | $42,370 |
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 Utah | $34,339 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,224 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,132 |
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 | $40,023 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,369 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 95 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $42,370 as a midpoint for Utah, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,360 and the ninetieth is $54,790 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $34,339 take-home in Utah comes from $42,370. 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 390 of 487.
- Two cautions on $36,145, the adjusted value of that $42,370 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Utah. 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 390 of 487 locally.
- The Utah median of $42,370 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,360 to $54,790. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $34,339, from $42,370, assumes a single Utah 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 390 of 487 locally, and the state ranks 21 of 51 for it.
- This $36,145 adjusted figure, worked from $42,370, 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 390 of 487 in the state. The occupation ranks 390 of 487 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $33,360 at the bottom tenth to $54,790 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $36,145.
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 Utah adds its own income tax on top — which is why $34,339 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($33,360 to $54,790) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Utah rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Utah'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 $36,145 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 $34,339 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Utah 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.