Packers and Packagers, Hand in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$27,844
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$5,416
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$28,794
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$33,260
Kept after tax
$27,844
Worth in national money
$28,794
State rank
39
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for packers and packagers, hand is on the low side in Georgia. The middle earner gets $33,260. That is 39 of 51 states, and about 8.32% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 492 occupations Georgia publishes, packers and packagers, hand lands at 456. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Georgia is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $33,260 the take-home is $27,844; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $28,794 would nationally. The average comes to $34,270, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For packers and packagers, hand, Georgia sits in the lower band at $33,260, ranking 39 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 8.32%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Georgia, this work ranks 456 of 492 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.
- Post-tax income for packers and packagers, hand in Georgia, on $33,260, is $27,844 — equivalent to $28,794 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 $34,270 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Packers and Packagers, Hand
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $26,430 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $33,260 |
| Top tenth earn over | $45,510 |
| This salary | $33,260 |
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 Georgia | $27,844 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $28,904 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$951 |
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 | $31,940 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,150 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $33,260 as a midpoint for Georgia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $26,430 and the ninetieth is $45,510 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Georgia's $27,844, worked from $33,260. 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 456 of 492.
- Two cautions on $28,794, the adjusted value of that $33,260 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Georgia. 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 456 of 492 locally.
- The Georgia median of $33,260 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $26,430 to $45,510. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Georgia take-home of $27,844, on $33,260 for work ranking 456 of 492 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 456 of 492 in the state.
- This $28,794 adjusted figure, worked from $33,260, 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 456 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 456 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $34,270, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $26,430 and the top tenth $45,510, so most people doing this work in Georgia sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Georgia sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $28,794 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Georgia's own levy, $27,844 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 Georgia is $34,270. 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 ($26,430 to $45,510) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Georgia rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Georgia'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 $28,794 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 $27,844 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.