Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$28,549
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$7,511
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$27,262
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$36,060
Kept after tax
$28,549
Worth in national money
$27,262
State rank
40
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Oregon. The middle earner gets $36,060. That is 40 of 50 states, and about 5.85% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 489 occupations Oregon publishes, this job lands at 479. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $36,060, tax leaves $28,549 — and because Oregon is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $27,262 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $37,810, since top earners drag the number up.
- For meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers, Oregon sits in the lower band at $36,060, ranking 40 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 5.85%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Oregon, this work ranks 479 of 489 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- After tax, $28,549 remains from the Oregon median of $36,060 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $27,262 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $37,810 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $36,060 |
| Top tenth earn over | $45,360 |
| This salary | $36,060 |
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 Oregon | $28,549 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $31,154 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,798 |
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 | $32,818 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,802 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
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 meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers in Oregon earn under $36,060 and half over. The published range runs $35,640 at the tenth percentile to $45,360 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Oregon the take-home figure of $28,549, from $36,060, 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 479 of 489 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $27,262, the adjusted value of that $36,060 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Oregon. 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 479 of 489 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers in Oregon, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,640 to $45,360; 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 Oregon is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $28,549 from $36,060. 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 479 of 489 locally.
- This $27,262 adjusted figure, worked from $36,060, 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 479 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 479 of 489 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 $37,810 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $35,640 at the bottom tenth to $45,360 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 Oregon run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $27,262 — 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 Oregon adds its own income tax on top — which is why $28,549 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 50 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 Oregon is $37,810. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($35,640 to $45,360) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Oregon rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $27,262 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 $28,549 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.