Medical Equipment Repairers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,080
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$9,290
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,507
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
$58,370
Kept after tax
$49,080
Worth in national money
$50,507
State rank
37
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Texas pays medical equipment repairers a middle wage of $58,370, 37 of 51 states and about 5.34% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 229 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $58,370, take-home of $49,080 is worth roughly $50,507 in national money. The average comes to $60,880, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Texas's $58,370 median for medical equipment repairers places it 37 of 51 states, about 5.34% 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 229 of 493 occupations in Texas 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.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for medical equipment repairers, whose median is $58,370, the adjusted figure of $50,507 differs little from $49,080 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $60,880 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 | $38,030 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,370 |
| Top tenth earn over | $89,150 |
| This salary | $58,370 |
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 | $49,080 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $49,080 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,065 |
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 | $58,370 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,946 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $58,370 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,030 and the ninetieth is $89,150 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $49,080, worked from $58,370. 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 229 of 493.
- Two cautions on $50,507, the adjusted value of that $58,370 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 229 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $58,370 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,030 to $89,150. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Texas take-home of $49,080, on $58,370 for work ranking 229 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 229 of 493 in the state.
- This $50,507 adjusted figure, worked from $58,370, 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 229 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 229 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 $60,880, 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 $38,030, the highest tenth $89,150, 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 Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $50,507 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $49,080 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 Texas is $60,880. 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 ($38,030) and the ninetieth ($89,150) 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 $50,507 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 $49,080 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.