Medical Equipment Repairers in Indiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,202
after federal, FICA and Indiana tax
Tax takes
$12,388
19.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,628
Indiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Indiana — 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
$64,590
Kept after tax
$52,202
Worth in national money
$56,628
State rank
18
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Indiana is 18 of 51 states for medical equipment repairers, with a middle wage of $64,590. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Indiana, this sits in the middle: 171 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Indiana does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $64,590 you keep $52,202, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $56,628 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $67,330, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Indiana ranks 18 of 51 for medical equipment repairers at $64,590. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Medical equipment repairers ranks 171 of 493 occupations in Indiana 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 Indiana income tax, retained pay for medical equipment repairers on $64,590 is $52,202. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $56,628 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 $67,330 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Medical Equipment Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,540 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $98,260 |
| This salary | $64,590 |
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 Indiana | $52,202 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,078 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$978 |
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 | $62,255 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,183 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
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 medical equipment repairers in Indiana earn under $64,590 and half over. The published range runs $40,540 at the tenth percentile to $98,260 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Indiana's $52,202, worked from $64,590. 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 171 of 493.
- Two cautions on $56,628, the adjusted value of that $64,590 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Indiana. 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 171 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for medical equipment repairers in Indiana, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $40,540 to $98,260; 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.
- The Indiana take-home of $52,202, on $64,590 for work ranking 171 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 171 of 493 in the state.
- This $56,628 adjusted figure, worked from $64,590, 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 171 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 171 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 $67,330, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $40,540, the highest tenth $98,260, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Indiana sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $56,628 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Indiana's own levy, $52,202 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 Indiana is $67,330. 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 ($40,540) and the ninetieth ($98,260) 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?
Indiana'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 $56,628 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 $52,202 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Indiana 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.