Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,817
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$10,203
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$48,651
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
$63,020
Kept after tax
$52,817
Worth in national money
$48,651
State rank
9
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Washington pays this job a middle wage of $63,020, ranking 9 of 49 states and sitting about 9.5% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Washington, this sits in the middle: 284 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $63,020 the take-home is $52,817. But Washington costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $48,651 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $66,830, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Washington's median for motorboat mechanics and service technicians is $63,020, about 9.5% above the national figure and 9 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.
- Motorboat mechanics and service technicians ranks 284 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and Washington income tax is $52,817 for motorboat mechanics and service technicians, from $63,020. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $48,651. ⚠️ 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 $66,830 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,370 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $93,810 |
| This salary | $63,020 |
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 | $52,817 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,817 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,701 |
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 | $63,020 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,895 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $63,020 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $47,370 and the ninetieth is $93,810 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Washington the take-home figure of $52,817, from $63,020, 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 284 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $48,651, the adjusted value of that $63,020 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. 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 284 of 493 locally.
- The Washington median of $63,020 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $47,370 to $93,810. 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 Washington is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $52,817 from $63,020. 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 284 of 493 locally.
- This $48,651 adjusted figure, worked from $63,020, 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 284 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 284 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $66,830 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $47,370, the highest tenth $93,810, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Washington run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $48,651 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $52,817 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.
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 Washington is $66,830. 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 ($47,370) and the ninetieth ($93,810) 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 $48,651 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 $52,817 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.