Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,648
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$7,472
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,017
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$49,120
Kept after tax
$41,648
Worth in national money
$45,017
State rank
34
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Tennessee. The middle earner gets $49,120. That is 34 of 49 states, and about 14.65% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 290 among 491 occupations Tennessee publishes pay for.
- Tennessee is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $49,120 the take-home is $41,648; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $45,017 would nationally. The average comes to $53,060, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For motorboat mechanics and service technicians, Tennessee sits in the lower band at $49,120, ranking 34 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 14.65%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 290 of 491 in Tennessee places motorboat mechanics and service technicians in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Post-tax income for motorboat mechanics and service technicians in Tennessee, on $49,120, is $41,648 — equivalent to $45,017 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $53,060 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,650 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,120 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,880 |
| This salary | $49,120 |
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 Tennessee | $41,648 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,648 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,159 |
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 | $49,120 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,611 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,120 as a midpoint for Tennessee, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $39,650 and the ninetieth is $60,880 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $41,648 take-home in Tennessee comes from $49,120. 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 290 of 491.
- One number stands for prices across all of Tennessee, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $45,017, the adjusted value of that $49,120 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 290 of 491 in the state.
- The Tennessee median of $49,120 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $39,650 to $60,880. 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 $41,648, from $49,120, assumes a single Tennessee 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 290 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 34 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Tennessee, so $45,017 — the adjusted value of that $49,120 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 290 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $53,060, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $39,650 at the tenth percentile, $60,880 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 $45,017.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $41,648 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Tennessee is $53,060. 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 ($39,650 to $60,880) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Tennessee rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Tennessee'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 $45,017 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $41,648 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.
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.