Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Vermont
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,410
after federal, FICA and Vermont tax
Tax takes
$8,010
17.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,712
Vermont costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Vermont — 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
$45,420
Kept after tax
$37,410
Worth in national money
$38,712
State rank
43
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Vermont. The middle earner gets $45,420. That is 43 of 49 states, and about 7.29% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 453 occupations Vermont publishes, this job lands at 384. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $45,420 you keep $37,410 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $38,712 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $49,580, since top earners drag the number up.
- For mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders, Vermont sits in the lower band at $45,420, ranking 43 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 7.29%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Vermont, this work ranks 384 of 453 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay in Vermont is $37,410 after the full tax stack, from $45,420. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $38,712 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $49,580 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 | $40,680 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,420 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,240 |
| This salary | $45,420 |
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 Vermont | $37,410 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,675 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,087 |
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 | $43,845 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,315 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $45,420 as a midpoint for Vermont, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $40,680 and the ninetieth is $62,240 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Vermont's $37,410, worked from $45,420. 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 384 of 453.
- Two cautions on $38,712, the adjusted value of that $45,420 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Vermont. 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 384 of 453 locally.
- The Vermont median of $45,420 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $40,680 to $62,240. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Vermont take-home of $37,410, on $45,420 for work ranking 384 of 453 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 384 of 453 in the state.
- This $38,712 adjusted figure, worked from $45,420, 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 384 of 453 in the state. The occupation ranks 384 of 453 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 $49,580, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $40,680 at the tenth percentile, $62,240 at the ninetieth.
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 $38,712.
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 Vermont's own levy, $37,410 remains.
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 Vermont is $49,580. 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 ($40,680 to $62,240) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Vermont rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Vermont'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 $38,712 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 $37,410 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Vermont 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.