Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics in Utah
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,768
after federal, FICA and Utah tax
Tax takes
$10,072
19.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,912
Utah costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Utah — 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
$50,840
Kept after tax
$40,768
Worth in national money
$42,912
State rank
16
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Utah's middle earner gets $50,840, putting the state 16 of 49 — about 6.18% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Utah, this sits in the middle: 295 of 487 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $50,840 you keep $40,768 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $42,912 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $51,860, since top earners drag the number up.
- For outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics, Utah sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $50,840, ranking 16 of 49 and running about 6.18% 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.
- Outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics ranks 295 of 487 occupations in Utah 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 in Utah is $40,768 after the full tax stack, from $50,840. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $42,912 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $51,860 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $32,600 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,840 |
| Top tenth earn over | $69,850 |
| This salary | $50,840 |
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 Utah | $40,768 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,030 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,369 |
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 | $48,024 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,655 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 95 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Utah earn less than $50,840. The published range is $32,600 up to $69,850, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $40,768 take-home in Utah comes from $50,840. 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 295 of 487.
- Two cautions on $42,912, the adjusted value of that $50,840 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Utah. 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 295 of 487 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics in Utah the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $32,600 to $69,850. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $40,768, from $50,840, assumes a single Utah 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 295 of 487 locally, and the state ranks 16 of 49 for it.
- This $42,912 adjusted figure, worked from $50,840, 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 295 of 487 in the state. The occupation ranks 295 of 487 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $32,600, the highest tenth $69,850, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $42,912.
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 Utah's own levy, $40,768 remains.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($32,600) and the ninetieth ($69,850) 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?
Utah'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 $42,912 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 $40,768 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Utah 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.