Maintenance Workers, Machinery in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,804
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$13,696
20.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,418
Virginia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Virginia — 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
$65,500
Kept after tax
$51,804
Worth in national money
$51,418
State rank
8
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for maintenance workers, machinery is strong here. Virginia's middle earner gets $65,500, putting the state 8 of 46 — about 7.64% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Maintenance workers, machinery ranks 195 among 489 occupations Virginia publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $65,500, tax leaves $51,804, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $51,418 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $67,390, since top earners drag the number up.
- For maintenance workers, machinery, Virginia sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $65,500, ranking 8 of 46 and running about 7.64% 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.
- Position 195 of 489 in Virginia places maintenance workers, machinery in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Because Virginia sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for maintenance workers, machinery — median $65,500 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $51,804 retained, $51,418 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $67,390 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 | $46,570 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $65,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $95,300 |
| This salary | $65,500 |
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 Virginia | $51,804 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,809 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,984 |
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 | $61,759 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,028 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $65,500 as a midpoint for Virginia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $46,570 and the ninetieth is $95,300 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Virginia's $51,804, worked from $65,500. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 195 of 489.
- Two cautions on $51,418, the adjusted value of that $65,500 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Virginia. 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 195 of 489 locally.
- The Virginia median of $65,500 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $46,570 to $95,300. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Virginia take-home of $51,804, on $65,500 for work ranking 195 of 489 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 195 of 489 in the state.
- This $51,418 adjusted figure, worked from $65,500, 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 195 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 195 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $46,570 and the top tenth $95,300 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $51,418 of national purchasing power.
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 Virginia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $51,804 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($46,570) and the ninetieth ($95,300) 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?
Virginia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $51,418 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 $51,804 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Virginia 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.