Mechanical Door Repairers in Mississippi
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,202
after federal, FICA and Mississippi tax
Tax takes
$8,858
18.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,764
Mississippi costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Mississippi — 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
$47,060
Kept after tax
$38,202
Worth in national money
$43,764
State rank
41
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for mechanical door repairers is on the low side in Mississippi. The middle earner gets $47,060. That is 41 of 45 states, and about 15.54% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Mississippi, this sits in the middle: 262 of 486 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Mississippi does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $47,060 you keep $38,202, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $43,764 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $48,860, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For mechanical door repairers, Mississippi sits in the lower band at $47,060, ranking 41 of 45 and trailing the national median by about 15.54%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Mechanical door repairers ranks 262 of 486 occupations in Mississippi by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After federal, FICA and Mississippi income tax, retained pay for mechanical door repairers on $47,060 is $38,202. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $43,764 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 $48,860 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Mechanical Door Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,390 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,060 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,440 |
| This salary | $47,060 |
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 Mississippi | $38,202 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,993 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,608 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
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 | $44,832 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,155 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
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 mechanical door repairers in Mississippi earn under $47,060 and half over. The published range runs $35,390 at the tenth percentile to $62,440 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Mississippi the take-home figure of $38,202, from $47,060, 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 262 of 486 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $43,764, the adjusted value of that $47,060 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Mississippi. 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 262 of 486 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for mechanical door repairers in Mississippi, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,390 to $62,440; 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 Mississippi is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $38,202 from $47,060. 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 262 of 486 locally.
- This $43,764 adjusted figure, worked from $47,060, 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 262 of 486 in the state. The occupation ranks 262 of 486 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $48,860, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $35,390 and the top tenth $62,440, so most people doing this work in Mississippi sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Mississippi is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $43,764 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 Mississippi's own levy, $38,202 remains.
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 Mississippi is $48,860. 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 ($35,390 to $62,440) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Mississippi rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Mississippi'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 $43,764 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 $38,202 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Mississippi 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.