Mechanical Door Repairers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,901
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$7,289
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,090
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$48,190
Kept after tax
$40,901
Worth in national money
$42,090
State rank
37
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas is among the lower-paying states for mechanical door repairers. The middle earner takes $48,190, ranking 37 of 45 states — about 13.51% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Mechanical door repairers ranks 297 among 493 occupations Texas publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $48,190 the take-home is $40,901, which is worth about $42,090 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $52,930, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas ranks 37 of 45 for mechanical door repairers, with a median of $48,190 — about 13.51% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Position 297 of 493 in Texas 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.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for mechanical door repairers on its $48,190 median: $40,901 retained after tax becomes $42,090 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $52,930 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 | $36,780 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,190 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,000 |
| This salary | $48,190 |
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 Texas | $40,901 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $40,901 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,554 |
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 | $48,190 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,288 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $48,190. The published range is $36,780 up to $75,000, 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 Texas's $40,901, worked from $48,190. 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 297 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $42,090 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 297.
- Reported values are medians; for mechanical door repairers in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,780 to $75,000. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Texas take-home of $40,901, on $48,190 for work ranking 297 of 493 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 297 of 493 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $42,090, worked from $48,190, 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 Texas address, on work sitting at 297 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $52,930, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $36,780 and the top tenth $75,000 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $42,090 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $40,901 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Texas is $52,930. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($36,780) and the ninetieth ($75,000) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Texas'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 $42,090 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $40,901 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.