Millwrights in Maryland
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,314
after federal, FICA and Maryland tax
Tax takes
$11,906
20.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,509
Maryland costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Maryland — 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
$59,220
Kept after tax
$47,314
Worth in national money
$45,509
State rank
42
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Maryland pays millwrights a middle wage of $59,220, 42 of 48 states and about 9.86% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Millwrights ranks 280 among 489 occupations Maryland publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $59,220, tax leaves $47,314 — and because Maryland is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $45,509 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $66,090, since top earners drag the number up.
- Maryland's $59,220 median for millwrights places it 42 of 48 states, about 9.86% 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.
- Position 280 of 489 in Maryland places millwrights 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, $47,314 remains from the Maryland median of $59,220 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $45,509 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $66,090 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Millwrights
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,660 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,220 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,890 |
| This salary | $59,220 |
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 Maryland | $47,314 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,763 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,700 |
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 | $56,172 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,894 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
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 millwrights in Maryland earn under $59,220 and half over. The published range runs $50,660 at the tenth percentile to $81,890 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $47,314 take-home in Maryland comes from $59,220. 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 280 of 489.
- Two cautions on $45,509, the adjusted value of that $59,220 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Maryland. 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 280 of 489 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for millwrights in Maryland, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $50,660 to $81,890; 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.
- Retained pay of $47,314, from $59,220, assumes a single Maryland 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 280 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 42 of 48 for it.
- This $45,509 adjusted figure, worked from $59,220, 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 280 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 280 of 489 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 $66,090 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $50,660 at the tenth percentile, $81,890 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $45,509 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Maryland then takes its own share, leaving $47,314.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 Maryland is $66,090. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($50,660 to $81,890) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Maryland rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Maryland's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $45,509 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 $47,314 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Maryland 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.