Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$64,139
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$14,481
18.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$59,081
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
$78,620
Kept after tax
$64,139
Worth in national money
$59,081
State rank
5
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Washington's middle earner gets $78,620, putting the state 5 of 51 — about 20.01% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Washington, this sits in the middle: 207 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Washington is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $78,620 the take-home is $64,139; in national-average money that behaves like $59,081. The average comes to $80,370, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines, Washington sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $78,620, ranking 5 of 51 and running about 20.01% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines ranks 207 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.
- Take-home for mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines in Washington, on $78,620, is $64,139; deflated by the state's price level, $59,081. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $80,370 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $53,250 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,620 |
| Top tenth earn over | $110,130 |
| This salary | $78,620 |
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 | $64,139 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,139 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,923 |
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 | $78,620 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,563 |
| 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 mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines in Washington earn under $78,620 and half over. The published range runs $53,250 at the tenth percentile to $110,130 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $64,139 take-home in Washington comes from $78,620. 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 207 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Washington, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $59,081, the adjusted value of that $78,620 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 207 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines in Washington, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $53,250 to $110,130; 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 $64,139, from $78,620, 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 207 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 5 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Washington, so $59,081 — the adjusted value of that $78,620 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 207 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $53,250, the highest tenth $110,130, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $59,081 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $64,139 of this wage reaches your account, because Washington takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($53,250) and the ninetieth ($110,130) 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.
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 $59,081 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 $64,139 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.