Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in Minnesota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,177
after federal, FICA and Minnesota tax
Tax takes
$9,413
19.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,823
Minnesota costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Minnesota — 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
$49,590
Kept after tax
$40,177
Worth in national money
$40,823
State rank
4
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Minnesota pays this job a middle wage of $49,590, ranking 4 of 49 states and sitting about 11.82% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Minnesota, this sits in the middle: 359 of 490 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Minnesota costs about what the country costs, so from $49,590, take-home of $40,177 is worth roughly $40,823 in national money. The average comes to $51,950, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Minnesota's median for molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic is $49,590, about 11.82% above the national figure and 4 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 359 of 490 occupations in Minnesota 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 Minnesota is near the national base, so for molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, whose median is $49,590, the adjusted figure of $40,823 differs little from $40,177 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $51,950 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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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 | $37,060 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,200 |
| This salary | $49,590 |
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 Minnesota | $40,177 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,026 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,424 |
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 | $47,289 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,932 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,590 as a midpoint for Minnesota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,060 and the ninetieth is $79,200 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Minnesota the take-home figure of $40,177, from $49,590, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 359 of 490 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Minnesota, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $40,823, the adjusted value of that $49,590 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 359 of 490 in the state.
- The Minnesota median of $49,590 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,060 to $79,200. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Minnesota is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $40,177 from $49,590. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 359 of 490 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Minnesota, so $40,823 — the adjusted value of that $49,590 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 359 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $51,950, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $37,060, the highest tenth $79,200, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Minnesota sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $40,823 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Minnesota's own levy, $40,177 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 Minnesota is $51,950. 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 ($37,060) and the ninetieth ($79,200) 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?
Minnesota'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 $40,823 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 $40,177 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Minnesota 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.