Maintenance Workers, Machinery in Colorado
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,504
after federal, FICA and Colorado tax
Tax takes
$12,506
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,802
Colorado costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Colorado — 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
$64,010
Kept after tax
$51,504
Worth in national money
$50,802
State rank
13
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for maintenance workers, machinery is strong here. Colorado's middle earner gets $64,010, putting the state 13 of 46 — about 5.19% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Colorado, this sits in the middle: 231 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $64,010 the take-home is $51,504, which is worth about $50,802 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $65,930, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For maintenance workers, machinery, Colorado sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $64,010, ranking 13 of 46 and running about 5.19% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Maintenance workers, machinery ranks 231 of 491 occupations in Colorado 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.
- Colorado's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for maintenance workers, machinery on its $64,010 median: $51,504 retained after tax becomes $50,802 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $65,930 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Maintenance Workers, Machinery
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,880 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,010 |
| Top tenth earn over | $85,980 |
| This salary | $64,010 |
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 Colorado | $51,504 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,612 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,369 |
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 | $61,386 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,284 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $64,010 as a midpoint for Colorado, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $47,880 and the ninetieth is $85,980 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $51,504 take-home in Colorado comes from $64,010. 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 231 of 491.
- Two cautions on $50,802, the adjusted value of that $64,010 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Colorado. 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 231 of 491 locally.
- The Colorado median of $64,010 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $47,880 to $85,980. 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 $51,504, from $64,010, assumes a single Colorado 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 231 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 13 of 46 for it.
- This $50,802 adjusted figure, worked from $64,010, 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 231 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 231 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $47,880 at the bottom tenth to $85,980 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Colorado run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $50,802 — 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 Colorado adds its own income tax on top — which is why $51,504 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 46 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($47,880 to $85,980) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Colorado rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Colorado's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $50,802 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 $51,504 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Colorado 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.