Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,840
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$9,610
22.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,315
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$43,450
Kept after tax
$33,840
Worth in national money
$32,315
State rank
11
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Oregon pays this job a middle wage of $43,450, ranking 11 of 50 states and sitting about 10.62% above the national middle.
- Against 489 occupations Oregon publishes, this job lands at 436. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Oregon is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $43,450 the take-home is $33,840; in national-average money that behaves like $32,315. The average lands at $42,890, below the middle of the range.
- Oregon's median for mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service is $43,450, about 10.62% above the national figure and 11 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within Oregon, this work ranks 436 of 489 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Take-home for mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service in Oregon, on $43,450, is $33,840; deflated by the state's price level, $32,315. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $42,890 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,500 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $43,450 |
| Top tenth earn over | $53,580 |
| This salary | $43,450 |
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 Oregon | $33,840 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $37,092 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,856 |
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 | $39,403 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,082 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
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 mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service in Oregon earn under $43,450 and half over. The published range runs $33,500 at the tenth percentile to $53,580 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $33,840 take-home in Oregon comes from $43,450. 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 436 of 489.
- Two cautions on $32,315, the adjusted value of that $43,450 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Oregon. 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 436 of 489 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service in Oregon, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,500 to $53,580; 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 $33,840, from $43,450, assumes a single Oregon 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 436 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 11 of 50 for it.
- This $32,315 adjusted figure, worked from $43,450, 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 436 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 436 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $33,500 and the top tenth $53,580, so most people doing this work in Oregon sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Oregon run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $32,315 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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 Oregon adds its own income tax on top — which is why $33,840 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 ($33,500 to $53,580) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Oregon rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $32,315 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $33,840 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.