Prepress Technicians and Workers in Arkansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,110
after federal, FICA and Arkansas tax
Tax takes
$9,690
18.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,833
Arkansas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arkansas — 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
$52,800
Kept after tax
$43,110
Worth in national money
$49,833
State rank
10
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Arkansas pays prepress technicians and workers a middle wage of $52,800, ranking 10 of 45 states and sitting about 8.44% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Arkansas, this sits in the middle: 198 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Arkansas is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $52,800 the take-home is $43,110; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $49,833 would nationally. The average lands at $52,550, below the middle of the range.
- Arkansas's median for prepress technicians and workers is $52,800, about 8.44% above the national figure and 10 of 45 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Prepress technicians and workers ranks 198 of 489 occupations in Arkansas 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 prepress technicians and workers in Arkansas, on $52,800, is $43,110 — equivalent to $49,833 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 $52,550 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Prepress Technicians and Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,140 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,800 |
| Top tenth earn over | $73,290 |
| This salary | $52,800 |
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 Arkansas | $43,110 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,605 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,932 |
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 | $50,939 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,755 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Arkansas earn less than $52,800. The published range is $34,140 up to $73,290, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $43,110 take-home in Arkansas comes from $52,800. 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 198 of 489.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $49,833 uses one figure for the whole of Arkansas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 489 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 198.
- Reported values are medians; for prepress technicians and workers in Arkansas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,140 to $73,290. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $43,110, from $52,800, assumes a single Arkansas 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 198 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 10 of 45 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $49,833, worked from $52,800, 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 Arkansas address, on work sitting at 198 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $34,140, the highest tenth $73,290, 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. Arkansas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $49,833 in national terms.
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 Arkansas's own levy, $43,110 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 45 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 ($34,140) and the ninetieth ($73,290) 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?
Arkansas'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 $49,833 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 $43,110 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arkansas 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.