Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,595
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$6,725
14.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,717
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
$45,320
Kept after tax
$38,595
Worth in national money
$39,717
State rank
44
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Texas pays this job a middle wage of $45,320, 44 of 49 states and about 7.49% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 348 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $45,320, take-home of $38,595 is worth roughly $39,717 in national money. The average comes to $47,220, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Texas's $45,320 median for mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders places it 44 of 49 states, about 7.49% 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.
- Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders ranks 348 of 493 occupations in Texas 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.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders, whose median is $45,320, the adjusted figure of $39,717 differs little from $38,595 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $47,220 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,110 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,320 |
| Top tenth earn over | $64,430 |
| This salary | $45,320 |
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 | $38,595 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $38,595 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,410 |
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 | $45,320 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,103 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $45,320. The published range is $31,110 up to $64,430, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $38,595 take-home in Texas comes from $45,320. 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 348 of 493.
- Two cautions on $39,717, the adjusted value of that $45,320 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 348 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $31,110 to $64,430. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $38,595, from $45,320, assumes a single Texas 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 348 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 44 of 49 for it.
- This $39,717 adjusted figure, worked from $45,320, 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 348 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 348 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $47,220, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $31,110, the highest tenth $64,430, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $39,717.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $38,595 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 Texas is $47,220. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($31,110) and the ninetieth ($64,430) 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 $39,717 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 $38,595 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.