Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,882
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$14,078
21.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,848
Hawaii costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Hawaii — 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
$64,960
Kept after tax
$50,882
Worth in national money
$46,848
State rank
7
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Hawaii pays this job a middle wage of $64,960, ranking 7 of 45 states and sitting about 30.15% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 201 among 437 occupations Hawaii publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $64,960, tax leaves $50,882 — and because Hawaii is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $46,848 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $69,720, since top earners drag the number up.
- Hawaii's median for miscellaneous construction and related workers is $64,960, about 30.15% above the national figure and 7 of 45 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 201 of 437 in Hawaii places miscellaneous construction and related workers 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, $50,882 remains from the Hawaii median of $64,960 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $46,848 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $69,720 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $52,430 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,960 |
| Top tenth earn over | $93,560 |
| This salary | $64,960 |
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 Hawaii | $50,882 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,375 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,108 |
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 | $60,612 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$11,015 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $64,960 as a midpoint for Hawaii, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $52,430 and the ninetieth is $93,560 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $50,882 take-home in Hawaii comes from $64,960. 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 201 of 437.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $46,848 uses one figure for the whole of Hawaii. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 437 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 201.
- The Hawaii median of $64,960 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $52,430 to $93,560. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $50,882, from $64,960, assumes a single Hawaii 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 201 of 437 locally, and the state ranks 7 of 45 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $46,848, worked from $64,960, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Hawaii address, on work sitting at 201 of 437 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $69,720, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $52,430 at the bottom tenth to $93,560 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Hawaii costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $46,848 rather than its face figure.
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 Hawaii's own levy, $50,882 remains.
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 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Hawaii is $69,720. 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 ($52,430 to $93,560) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Hawaii rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Hawaii's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $46,848 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 $50,882 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Hawaii 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.