Maintenance Workers, Machinery in New York
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,340
after federal, FICA and New York tax
Tax takes
$14,270
21.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,560
New York costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New York — 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
$67,610
Kept after tax
$53,340
Worth in national money
$49,560
State rank
7
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for maintenance workers, machinery is strong here. New York's middle earner gets $67,610, putting the state 7 of 46 — about 11.11% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in New York, this sits in the middle: 245 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $67,610, tax leaves $53,340 — and because New York is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $49,560 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $73,480, since top earners drag the number up.
- For maintenance workers, machinery, New York sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $67,610, ranking 7 of 46 and running about 11.11% 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 245 of 493 occupations in New York 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 tax, $53,340 remains from the New York median of $67,610 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $49,560 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $73,480 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Maintenance Workers, Machinery
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,880 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $67,610 |
| Top tenth earn over | $104,360 |
| This salary | $67,610 |
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 New York | $53,340 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $56,394 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,473 |
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 | $63,671 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,385 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in New York earn less than $67,610. The published range is $47,880 up to $104,360, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $53,340 take-home in New York comes from $67,610. 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 245 of 493.
- Two cautions on $49,560, the adjusted value of that $67,610 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New York. 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 245 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for maintenance workers, machinery in New York the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $47,880 to $104,360. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $53,340, from $67,610, assumes a single New York 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 245 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 7 of 46 for it.
- This $49,560 adjusted figure, worked from $67,610, 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 245 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 245 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $73,480, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $47,880, the highest tenth $104,360, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in New York run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $49,560 — 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 New York adds its own income tax on top — which is why $53,340 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 46 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 New York is $73,480. 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 ($47,880) and the ninetieth ($104,360) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New York's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $49,560 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 $53,340 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New York 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.