Maintenance Workers, Machinery in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,811
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$9,469
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,260
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$59,280
Kept after tax
$49,811
Worth in national money
$51,260
State rank
32
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Texas pays maintenance workers, machinery a middle wage of $59,280, 32 of 46 states and about 2.58% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Texas reports figures for, this is number 224.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $59,280, take-home of $49,811 is worth roughly $51,260 in national money. The average comes to $62,790, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Texas's $59,280 median for maintenance workers, machinery places it 32 of 46 states, about 2.58% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- In Texas's occupational distribution, maintenance workers, machinery sits at 224 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for maintenance workers, machinery, whose median is $59,280, the adjusted figure of $51,260 differs little from $49,811 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $62,790 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Maintenance Workers, Machinery
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,440 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $90,650 |
| This salary | $59,280 |
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 Texas | $49,811 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $49,811 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,110 |
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 | $59,280 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,004 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $59,280 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,440 and the ninetieth is $90,650 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $49,811 take-home in Texas comes from $59,280. 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 224 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $51,260 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 224.
- The Texas median of $59,280 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,440 to $90,650. 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 $49,811, from $59,280, assumes a single Texas 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 224 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 32 of 46 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $51,260, worked from $59,280, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Texas address, on work sitting at 224 of 493 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 $62,790 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $38,440, the highest tenth $90,650, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $51,260.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $49,811 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?
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.
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 Texas is $62,790. 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 ($38,440) and the ninetieth ($90,650) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Texas'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 $51,260 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $49,811 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.