Millwrights in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,503
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$10,127
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,030
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
$62,630
Kept after tax
$52,503
Worth in national money
$54,030
State rank
32
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Texas is 32 of 48 states for millwrights, with a middle wage of $62,630. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Millwrights ranks 190 among 493 occupations Texas publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $62,630 the take-home is $52,503, which is worth about $54,030 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $63,840, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas ranks 32 of 48 for millwrights at $62,630. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Position 190 of 493 in Texas 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.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for millwrights on its $62,630 median: $52,503 retained after tax becomes $54,030 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $63,840 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Millwrights
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,510 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,630 |
| Top tenth earn over | $92,490 |
| This salary | $62,630 |
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 | $52,503 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $52,503 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,278 |
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 | $62,630 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,271 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $62,630 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,510 and the ninetieth is $92,490 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $52,503, from $62,630, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 190 of 493 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $54,030, the adjusted value of that $62,630 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 190 of 493 in the state.
- The Texas median of $62,630 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,510 to $92,490. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $52,503 from $62,630. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 190 of 493 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $54,030 — the adjusted value of that $62,630 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 190 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $38,510 and the top tenth $92,490 — 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 $54,030 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $52,503 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.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($38,510) and the ninetieth ($92,490) 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 $54,030 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 $52,503 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.