Maintenance and Repair Workers, General in Nebraska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,314
after federal, FICA and Nebraska tax
Tax takes
$9,386
18.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,714
Nebraska costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Nebraska — 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
$50,700
Kept after tax
$41,314
Worth in national money
$45,714
State rank
22
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Nebraska sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $50,700, ranking 22 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Nebraska, this sits in the middle: 279 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Nebraska does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $50,700 you keep $41,314, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $45,714 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $52,560, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Nebraska occupies the middle band for maintenance and repair workers, general: a median of $50,700, ranking 22 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Maintenance and repair workers, general ranks 279 of 488 occupations in Nebraska 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.
- After federal, FICA and Nebraska income tax, retained pay for maintenance and repair workers, general on $50,700 is $41,314. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $45,714 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 $52,560 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,240 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,700 |
| Top tenth earn over | $69,210 |
| This salary | $50,700 |
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 Nebraska | $41,314 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,917 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,549 |
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 | $48,705 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,873 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $50,700 as a midpoint for Nebraska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,240 and the ninetieth is $69,210 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $41,314 take-home in Nebraska comes from $50,700. 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 279 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of Nebraska, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $45,714, the adjusted value of that $50,700 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 279 of 488 in the state.
- The Nebraska median of $50,700 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,240 to $69,210. 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 $41,314, from $50,700, assumes a single Nebraska 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 279 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 22 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Nebraska, so $45,714 — the adjusted value of that $50,700 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 279 of 488 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 $52,560 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $36,240 and the top tenth $69,210, so most people doing this work in Nebraska sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Nebraska sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $45,714 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Nebraska adds its own income tax on top — which is why $41,314 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.
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 Nebraska is $52,560. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($36,240 to $69,210) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Nebraska rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Nebraska'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 $45,714 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 $41,314 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Nebraska 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.