Mechanical Door Repairers in New Jersey
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,908
after federal, FICA and New Jersey tax
Tax takes
$13,242
19.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,510
New Jersey costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New Jersey — 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
$67,150
Kept after tax
$53,908
Worth in national money
$49,510
State rank
2
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New Jersey pays mechanical door repairers a middle wage of $67,150, ranking 2 of 45 states and sitting about 20.51% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Mechanical door repairers ranks 251 among 490 occupations New Jersey publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $67,150, tax leaves $53,908 — and because New Jersey is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $49,510 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $68,750, since top earners drag the number up.
- New Jersey's median for mechanical door repairers is $67,150, about 20.51% above the national figure and 2 of 45 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 251 of 490 in New Jersey 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.
- After tax, $53,908 remains from the New Jersey median of $67,150 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $49,510 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $68,750 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 | $47,840 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $67,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $91,140 |
| This salary | $67,150 |
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 New Jersey | $53,908 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $56,070 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,190 |
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 | $64,378 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,986 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in New Jersey earn less than $67,150. The published range is $47,840 up to $91,140, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $53,908 take-home in New Jersey comes from $67,150. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 251 of 490.
- One number stands for prices across all of New Jersey, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $49,510, the adjusted value of that $67,150 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 251 of 490 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for mechanical door repairers in New Jersey the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $47,840 to $91,140. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $53,908, from $67,150, assumes a single New Jersey filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 251 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 2 of 45 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New Jersey, so $49,510 — the adjusted value of that $67,150 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 251 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $47,840 at the bottom tenth to $91,140 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New Jersey costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $49,510 rather than its face figure.
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 New Jersey's own levy, $53,908 remains.
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($47,840 to $91,140) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to New Jersey rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New Jersey's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $49,510 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 $53,908 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New Jersey 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.