Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,639
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$11,741
16.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,093
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$69,380
Kept after tax
$57,639
Worth in national money
$53,093
State rank
3
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Washington is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $69,380, which ranks 3 of 45 states with published figures. That is about 39.01% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Washington, this sits in the middle: 257 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $69,380, tax leaves $57,639 — and because Washington is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $53,093 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $73,030, since top earners drag the number up.
- Washington ranks 3 of 45 states publishing a median for miscellaneous construction and related workers, at $69,380 — about 39.01% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Miscellaneous construction and related workers ranks 257 of 493 occupations in Washington 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.
- After tax, $57,639 remains from the Washington median of $69,380 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $53,093 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $73,030 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 | $56,020 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $69,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $95,690 |
| This salary | $69,380 |
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 Washington | $57,639 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $57,639 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,221 |
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 | $69,380 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,883 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
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 miscellaneous construction and related workers in Washington earn under $69,380 and half over. The published range runs $56,020 at the tenth percentile to $95,690 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $57,639 take-home in Washington comes from $69,380. 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 257 of 493.
- Two cautions on $53,093, the adjusted value of that $69,380 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. 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 257 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for miscellaneous construction and related workers in Washington, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $56,020 to $95,690; 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 $57,639, from $69,380, assumes a single Washington 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 257 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 3 of 45 for it.
- This $53,093 adjusted figure, worked from $69,380, 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 257 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 257 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 $73,030, 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 $56,020 at the bottom tenth to $95,690 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Washington run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $53,093 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $57,639 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Washington is $73,030. 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 ($56,020 to $95,690) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Washington rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $53,093 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $57,639 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.