Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,319
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$8,841
18.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,627
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$47,160
Kept after tax
$38,319
Worth in national money
$39,627
State rank
20
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Georgia pays this job around $47,160 at the midpoint, 20 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Georgia, this sits in the middle: 326 of 492 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Georgia does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $47,160 you keep $38,319, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $39,627 would elsewhere. The average is lower, $46,700, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic the Georgia median is $47,160, ranking 20 of 48 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic ranks 326 of 492 occupations in Georgia 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 federal, FICA and Georgia income tax, retained pay for molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic on $47,160 is $38,319. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $39,627 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $46,700 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,210 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,160 |
| Top tenth earn over | $64,000 |
| This salary | $47,160 |
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 Georgia | $38,319 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,073 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,611 |
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 | $44,976 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,949 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $47,160 as a midpoint for Georgia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,210 and the ninetieth is $64,000 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $38,319 take-home in Georgia comes from $47,160. 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 326 of 492.
- Two cautions on $39,627, the adjusted value of that $47,160 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Georgia. 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 326 of 492 locally.
- The Georgia median of $47,160 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,210 to $64,000. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $38,319, from $47,160, assumes a single Georgia 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 326 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 20 of 48 for it.
- This $39,627 adjusted figure, worked from $47,160, 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 326 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 326 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $33,210 and the top tenth $64,000, so most people doing this work in Georgia sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Georgia sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $39,627 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Georgia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $38,319 of this wage survives to your account.
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 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($33,210 to $64,000) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Georgia rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Georgia'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 $39,627 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 $38,319 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.