Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Missouri
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,200
after federal, FICA and Missouri tax
Tax takes
$9,140
18.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,898
Missouri costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Missouri — 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
$50,340
Kept after tax
$41,200
Worth in national money
$44,898
State rank
20
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Missouri is 20 of 49 states for this job, with a middle wage of $50,340. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 289 among 488 occupations Missouri publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $50,340 you keep $41,200 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $44,898 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $53,100, since top earners drag the number up.
- Missouri ranks 20 of 49 for mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders at $50,340. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Position 289 of 488 in Missouri places mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders 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.
- Retained pay in Missouri is $41,200 after the full tax stack, from $50,340. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $44,898 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $53,100 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,120 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,340 |
| Top tenth earn over | $65,260 |
| This salary | $50,340 |
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 Missouri | $41,200 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,628 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,031 |
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 | $48,562 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,247 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Missouri earn less than $50,340. The published range is $39,120 up to $65,260, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Missouri's $41,200, worked from $50,340. 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 289 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of Missouri, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $44,898, the adjusted value of that $50,340 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 289 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders in Missouri the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $39,120 to $65,260. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Missouri take-home of $41,200, on $50,340 for work ranking 289 of 488 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 289 of 488 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Missouri, so $44,898 — the adjusted value of that $50,340 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 289 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $53,100, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $39,120 and the top tenth $65,260, so most people doing this work in Missouri sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Missouri sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $44,898 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Missouri's own levy, $41,200 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 49 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 Missouri is $53,100. 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 ($39,120 to $65,260) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Missouri rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Missouri'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 $44,898 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $41,200 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Missouri 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.