Mechanical Door Repairers in Arizona
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,878
after federal, FICA and Arizona tax
Tax takes
$8,882
17.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,409
Arizona costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arizona — 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
$51,760
Kept after tax
$42,878
Worth in national money
$42,409
State rank
25
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Arizona pays mechanical door repairers around $51,760 at the midpoint, 25 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Mechanical door repairers ranks 284 among 491 occupations Arizona publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $51,760, tax leaves $42,878, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $42,409 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $57,990, since top earners drag the number up.
- For mechanical door repairers the Arizona median is $51,760, ranking 25 of 45 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 284 of 491 in Arizona places mechanical door repairers 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 Arizona sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for mechanical door repairers — median $51,760 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $42,878 retained, $42,409 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $57,990 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Mechanical Door Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,220 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,760 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,960 |
| This salary | $51,760 |
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 Arizona | $42,878 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,769 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,633 |
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 | $50,650 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,184 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Arizona earn less than $51,760. The published range is $45,220 up to $77,960, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Arizona's $42,878, worked from $51,760. 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 284 of 491.
- Two cautions on $42,409, the adjusted value of that $51,760 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Arizona. 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 284 of 491 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for mechanical door repairers in Arizona the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,220 to $77,960. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Arizona take-home of $42,878, on $51,760 for work ranking 284 of 491 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 284 of 491 in the state.
- This $42,409 adjusted figure, worked from $51,760, 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 284 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 284 of 491 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 $57,990, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $45,220 at the bottom tenth to $77,960 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 Arizona run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $42,409 — 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 Arizona adds its own income tax on top — which is why $42,878 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 Arizona is $57,990. 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 ($45,220 to $77,960) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Arizona rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Arizona's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $42,409 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 $42,878 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arizona 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.