Locksmiths and Safe Repairers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,422
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$6,438
14.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,509
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$43,860
Kept after tax
$37,422
Worth in national money
$38,509
State rank
42
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for locksmiths and safe repairers is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $43,860. That is 42 of 48 states, and about 14.54% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Texas reports figures for, this is number 362.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $43,860, tax leaves $37,422, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $38,509 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $42,200.
- For locksmiths and safe repairers, Texas sits in the lower band at $43,860, ranking 42 of 48 and trailing the national median by about 14.54%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- In Texas's occupational distribution, locksmiths and safe repairers sits at 362 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for locksmiths and safe repairers — median $43,860 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $37,422 retained, $38,509 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $42,200 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Locksmiths and Safe Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $18,230 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $43,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $59,280 |
| This salary | $43,860 |
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 Texas | $37,422 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $37,422 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,337 |
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 | $43,860 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,008 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
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 locksmiths and safe repairers in Texas earn under $43,860 and half over. The published range runs $18,230 at the tenth percentile to $59,280 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $37,422 take-home in Texas comes from $43,860. 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 362 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $38,509, the adjusted value of that $43,860 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 362 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for locksmiths and safe repairers in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $18,230 to $59,280; 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 $37,422, from $43,860, assumes a single Texas 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 362 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 42 of 48 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $38,509 — the adjusted value of that $43,860 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 362 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $42,200 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $18,230 at the bottom tenth to $59,280 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $38,509.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $37,422 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. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 Texas is $42,200. 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 ($18,230) and the ninetieth ($59,280) 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?
Texas'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 $38,509 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?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $37,422 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.