Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks in New Jersey
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,651
after federal, FICA and New Jersey tax
Tax takes
$12,060
19.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,518
New Jersey costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New Jersey — 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
$62,710
Kept after tax
$50,651
Worth in national money
$46,518
State rank
9
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Jersey's middle earner gets $62,710, putting the state 9 of 51 — about 5.13% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in New Jersey, this sits in the middle: 270 of 490 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- New Jersey is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $62,710 the take-home is $50,651; in national-average money that behaves like $46,518. The average comes to $64,170, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For production, planning, and expediting clerks, New Jersey sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $62,710, ranking 9 of 51 and running about 5.13% 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.
- Production, planning, and expediting clerks ranks 270 of 490 occupations in New Jersey 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.
- Take-home for production, planning, and expediting clerks in New Jersey, on $62,710, is $50,651; deflated by the state's price level, $46,518. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $64,170 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,440 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,710 |
| Top tenth earn over | $87,660 |
| This salary | $62,710 |
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 New Jersey | $50,651 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,567 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,577 |
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 | $60,324 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,164 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $62,710 as a midpoint for New Jersey, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $42,440 and the ninetieth is $87,660 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $50,651 take-home in New Jersey comes from $62,710. 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 270 of 490.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $46,518 uses one figure for the whole of New Jersey. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 490 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 270.
- The New Jersey median of $62,710 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $42,440 to $87,660. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $50,651, from $62,710, assumes a single New Jersey 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 270 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 9 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $46,518, worked from $62,710, 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 New Jersey address, on work sitting at 270 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $42,440, the highest tenth $87,660, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $46,518 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; New Jersey then takes its own share, leaving $50,651.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($42,440) and the ninetieth ($87,660) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New Jersey's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $46,518 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $50,651 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New Jersey 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.