Mechanical Door Repairers in Massachusetts
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,523
after federal, FICA and Massachusetts tax
Tax takes
$11,247
20.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,134
Massachusetts costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Massachusetts — 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
$55,770
Kept after tax
$44,523
Worth in national money
$41,134
State rank
18
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Massachusetts pays mechanical door repairers around $55,770 at the midpoint, 18 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 485 occupations Massachusetts reports figures for, this is number 333.
- Massachusetts is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $55,770 the take-home is $44,523; in national-average money that behaves like $41,134. The average comes to $58,660, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For mechanical door repairers the Massachusetts median is $55,770, ranking 18 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.
- In Massachusetts's occupational distribution, mechanical door repairers sits at 333 of 485 — 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.
- Take-home for mechanical door repairers in Massachusetts, on $55,770, is $44,523; deflated by the state's price level, $41,134. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $58,660 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Mechanical Door Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,900 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $55,770 |
| Top tenth earn over | $70,530 |
| This salary | $55,770 |
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 Massachusetts | $44,523 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $46,991 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,223 |
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 | $52,698 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,736 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $55,770 as a midpoint for Massachusetts, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $47,900 and the ninetieth is $70,530 — 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 Massachusetts's $44,523, worked from $55,770. 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 333 of 485.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $41,134 uses one figure for the whole of Massachusetts. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 485 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 333.
- The Massachusetts median of $55,770 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $47,900 to $70,530. 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 Massachusetts take-home of $44,523, on $55,770 for work ranking 333 of 485 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 333 of 485 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $41,134, worked from $55,770, 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 Massachusetts address, on work sitting at 333 of 485 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 $58,660 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $47,900 at the tenth percentile, $70,530 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Massachusetts costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $41,134 rather than its face figure.
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 Massachusetts adds its own income tax on top — which is why $44,523 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 45 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 Massachusetts is $58,660. 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 ($47,900 to $70,530) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Massachusetts rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Massachusetts's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $41,134 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 $44,523 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Massachusetts 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.