Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,938
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$10,352
19.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,404
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
$53,290
Kept after tax
$42,938
Worth in national money
$44,404
State rank
50
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Georgia pays this job a middle wage of $53,290, 50 of 51 states and about 8.86% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Georgia, this sits in the middle: 250 of 492 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Georgia is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $53,290 the take-home is $42,938; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $44,404 would nationally. The average comes to $56,260, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Georgia's $53,290 median for postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators places it 50 of 51 states, about 8.86% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators ranks 250 of 492 occupations in Georgia 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.
- Post-tax income for postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators in Georgia, on $53,290, is $42,938 — equivalent to $44,404 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 $56,260 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,600 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $53,290 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,280 |
| This salary | $53,290 |
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 | $42,938 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,999 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,903 |
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 | $50,726 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,301 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 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 postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators in Georgia earn under $53,290 and half over. The published range runs $40,600 at the tenth percentile to $75,280 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $42,938 take-home in Georgia comes from $53,290. 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 250 of 492.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $44,404 uses one figure for the whole of Georgia. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 492 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 250.
- Figures are distribution medians for postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators in Georgia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $40,600 to $75,280; 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.
- Retained pay of $42,938, from $53,290, assumes a single Georgia 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 250 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 50 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $44,404, worked from $53,290, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Georgia address, on work sitting at 250 of 492 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 $56,260 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $40,600 at the tenth percentile, $75,280 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Georgia is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $44,404 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Georgia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $42,938 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 Georgia is $56,260. 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 ($40,600 to $75,280) 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 $44,404 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 $42,938 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.