Medical Equipment Repairers in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,174
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$7,356
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,505
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$48,530
Kept after tax
$41,174
Worth in national money
$44,505
State rank
43
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Tennessee pays medical equipment repairers a middle wage of $48,530, 43 of 51 states and about 21.29% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Tennessee, this sits in the middle: 294 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Tennessee is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $48,530 the take-home is $41,174; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $44,505 would nationally. The average comes to $57,750, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Tennessee's $48,530 median for medical equipment repairers places it 43 of 51 states, about 21.29% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Medical equipment repairers ranks 294 of 491 occupations in Tennessee 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.
- Post-tax income for medical equipment repairers in Tennessee, on $48,530, is $41,174 — equivalent to $44,505 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $57,750 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Medical Equipment Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,780 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,530 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,470 |
| This salary | $48,530 |
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 Tennessee | $41,174 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,174 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,134 |
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 | $48,530 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,581 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Tennessee earn less than $48,530. The published range is $45,780 up to $81,470, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $41,174 take-home in Tennessee comes from $48,530. 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 294 of 491.
- One number stands for prices across all of Tennessee, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $44,505, the adjusted value of that $48,530 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 294 of 491 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for medical equipment repairers in Tennessee the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,780 to $81,470. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $41,174, from $48,530, assumes a single Tennessee 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 294 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 43 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Tennessee, so $44,505 — the adjusted value of that $48,530 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 294 of 491 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 $57,750 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $45,780 and the top tenth $81,470 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $44,505.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $41,174 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 Tennessee is $57,750. 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 ($45,780) and the ninetieth ($81,470) 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?
Tennessee'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 $44,505 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?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $41,174 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.
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.