Office Machine Operators, Except Computer in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,958
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$5,102
13.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,887
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
$37,060
Kept after tax
$31,958
Worth in national money
$32,887
State rank
34
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $37,060. That is 34 of 47 states, and about 9.52% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Texas publishes, this job lands at 423. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $37,060, take-home of $31,958 is worth roughly $32,887 in national money. The average comes to $38,480, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For office machine operators, except computer, Texas sits in the lower band at $37,060, ranking 34 of 47 and trailing the national median by about 9.52%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Texas, this work ranks 423 of 493 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for office machine operators, except computer, whose median is $37,060, the adjusted figure of $32,887 differs little from $31,958 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $38,480 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Office Machine Operators, Except Computer
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $24,990 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,060 |
| Top tenth earn over | $51,350 |
| This salary | $37,060 |
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 | $31,958 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $31,958 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,995 |
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 | $37,060 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,569 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $37,060. The published range is $24,990 up to $51,350, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $31,958 take-home in Texas comes from $37,060. 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 423 of 493.
- Two cautions on $32,887, the adjusted value of that $37,060 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 423 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for office machine operators, except computer in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $24,990 to $51,350. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $31,958, from $37,060, assumes a single Texas 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 423 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 34 of 47 for it.
- This $32,887 adjusted figure, worked from $37,060, 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 423 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 423 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $38,480, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $24,990 at the bottom tenth to $51,350 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $32,887 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $31,958 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Texas is $38,480. 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 ($24,990 to $51,350) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
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 $32,887 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 $31,958 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.