Materials Engineers in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$75,338
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$25,502
25.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$77,910
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$100,840
Kept after tax
$75,338
Worth in national money
$77,910
State rank
29
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Georgia sits in the middle of the pack for materials engineers. The median is $100,840, ranking 29 of 45 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Within Georgia this is well-paid work. Of 492 occupations with published figures in the state, materials engineers ranks 61 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Here is where Georgia does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $100,840 you keep $75,338, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $77,910 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $108,070, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Georgia occupies the middle band for materials engineers: a median of $100,840, ranking 29 of 45. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Ranked against every occupation Georgia publishes a median for, materials engineers sits 61 of 492 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- After federal, FICA and Georgia income tax, retained pay for materials engineers on $100,840 is $75,338. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $77,910 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 $108,070 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Materials Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $71,830 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $100,840 |
| Top tenth earn over | $159,560 |
| This salary | $100,840 |
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 Georgia | $75,338 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $79,771 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,180 |
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 | $94,538 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,774 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of materials engineers in Georgia earn under $100,840 and half over. The published range runs $71,830 at the tenth percentile to $159,560 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Georgia the take-home figure of $75,338, from $100,840, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 61 of 492 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $77,910, the adjusted value of that $100,840 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Georgia. 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 61 of 492 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for materials engineers in Georgia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $71,830 to $159,560; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Take-home for Georgia is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $75,338 from $100,840. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 61 of 492 locally.
- This $77,910 adjusted figure, worked from $100,840, 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 61 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 61 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $108,070, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $71,830 and the top tenth $159,560 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Georgia is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $77,910 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Georgia's own levy, $75,338 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 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 Georgia is $108,070. 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 ($71,830) and the ninetieth ($159,560) 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?
Georgia'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 $77,910 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 $75,338 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.