Locksmiths and Safe Repairers in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,791
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$9,219
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,943
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$58,010
Kept after tax
$48,791
Worth in national money
$44,943
State rank
12
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Washington pays locksmiths and safe repairers a middle wage of $58,010, ranking 12 of 48 states and sitting about 13.04% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Locksmiths and safe repairers ranks 341 among 493 occupations Washington publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $58,010, tax leaves $48,791 — and because Washington is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $44,943 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $59,580, since top earners drag the number up.
- Washington's median for locksmiths and safe repairers is $58,010, about 13.04% above the national figure and 12 of 48 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 341 of 493 in Washington places locksmiths and safe repairers 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.
- After tax, $48,791 remains from the Washington median of $58,010 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $44,943 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $59,580 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Locksmiths and Safe Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,240 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,010 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,580 |
| This salary | $58,010 |
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 Washington | $48,791 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,791 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,266 |
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 | $58,010 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,369 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Washington earn less than $58,010. The published range is $46,240 up to $79,580, 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 Washington's $48,791, worked from $58,010. 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 341 of 493.
- Two cautions on $44,943, the adjusted value of that $58,010 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. 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 341 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for locksmiths and safe repairers in Washington the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $46,240 to $79,580. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Washington take-home of $48,791, on $58,010 for work ranking 341 of 493 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 341 of 493 in the state.
- This $44,943 adjusted figure, worked from $58,010, 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 341 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 341 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $46,240 at the bottom tenth to $79,580 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $44,943 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $48,791 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($46,240 to $79,580) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Washington rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $44,943 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $48,791 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.