Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,942
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$18,618
24.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,270
Hawaii costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Hawaii — 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
$77,560
Kept after tax
$58,942
Worth in national money
$54,270
State rank
1
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Hawaii pays this job a middle wage of $77,560, ranking 1 of 49 states and sitting about 74.88% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Hawaii, this sits in the middle: 150 of 437 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $77,560 the take-home is $58,942. But Hawaii costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $54,270 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is lower, $77,490, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- Hawaii's median for molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic is $77,560, about 74.88% above the national figure and 1 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic ranks 150 of 437 occupations in Hawaii 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and Hawaii income tax is $58,942 for molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, from $77,560. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $54,270. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $77,490 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $55,950 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,560 |
| Top tenth earn over | $96,350 |
| This salary | $77,560 |
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 Hawaii | $58,942 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,393 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$10,966 |
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 | $71,233 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$14,639 |
| 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 molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in Hawaii earn under $77,560 and half over. The published range runs $55,950 at the tenth percentile to $96,350 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Hawaii's $58,942, worked from $77,560. 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 150 of 437.
- Two cautions on $54,270, the adjusted value of that $77,560 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Hawaii. 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 150 of 437 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic in Hawaii, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $55,950 to $96,350; 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.
- The Hawaii take-home of $58,942, on $77,560 for work ranking 150 of 437 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 150 of 437 in the state.
- This $54,270 adjusted figure, worked from $77,560, 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 150 of 437 in the state. The occupation ranks 150 of 437 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $55,950 and the top tenth $96,350, so most people doing this work in Hawaii sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $54,270 of national purchasing power.
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 Hawaii adds its own income tax on top — which is why $58,942 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($55,950 to $96,350) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Hawaii rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Hawaii's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $54,270 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $58,942 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Hawaii 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.