Motorcycle Mechanics in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,031
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$8,299
15.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,340
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$53,330
Kept after tax
$45,031
Worth in national money
$46,340
State rank
10
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for motorcycle mechanics is strong here. Texas's middle earner gets $53,330, putting the state 10 of 45 — about 9.78% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 249 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $53,330, tax leaves $45,031, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $46,340 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $53,870, since top earners drag the number up.
- For motorcycle mechanics, Texas sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $53,330, ranking 10 of 45 and running about 9.78% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Motorcycle mechanics ranks 249 of 493 occupations in Texas 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for motorcycle mechanics — median $53,330 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $45,031 retained, $46,340 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $53,870 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Motorcycle Mechanics
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $53,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,470 |
| This salary | $53,330 |
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 Texas | $45,031 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $45,031 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,812 |
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 | $53,330 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,620 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
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 motorcycle mechanics in Texas earn under $53,330 and half over. The published range runs $34,360 at the tenth percentile to $75,470 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 Texas's $45,031, worked from $53,330. 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 249 of 493.
- Two cautions on $46,340, the adjusted value of that $53,330 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 249 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for motorcycle mechanics in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $34,360 to $75,470; 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 Texas take-home of $45,031, on $53,330 for work ranking 249 of 493 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 249 of 493 in the state.
- This $46,340 adjusted figure, worked from $53,330, 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 249 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 249 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $34,360, the highest tenth $75,470, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Texas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $46,340 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $45,031 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($34,360) and the ninetieth ($75,470) 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?
Texas'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 $46,340 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?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $45,031 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.