Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,187
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$8,093
15.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,702
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$52,280
Kept after tax
$44,187
Worth in national money
$40,702
State rank
24
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Washington is 24 of 45 states for this job, with a middle wage of $52,280. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Washington this is lower-paid work. Of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 370. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Washington is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $52,280 the take-home is $44,187; in national-average money that behaves like $40,702. The average comes to $60,020, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Washington ranks 24 of 45 for recreational vehicle service technicians at $52,280. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation Washington reports, recreational vehicle service technicians ranks 370 of 493, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Take-home for recreational vehicle service technicians in Washington, on $52,280, is $44,187; deflated by the state's price level, $40,702. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $60,020 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,890 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,860 |
| This salary | $52,280 |
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 Washington | $44,187 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,187 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,769 |
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 | $52,280 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,768 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Washington earn less than $52,280. The published range is $46,890 up to $81,860, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Washington's $44,187, worked from $52,280. 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 370 of 493.
- Two cautions on $40,702, the adjusted value of that $52,280 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. 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 370 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for recreational vehicle service technicians in Washington the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $46,890 to $81,860. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Washington take-home of $44,187, on $52,280 for work ranking 370 of 493 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 370 of 493 in the state.
- This $40,702 adjusted figure, worked from $52,280, 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 370 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 370 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $60,020, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $46,890 and the top tenth $81,860, so most people doing this work in Washington sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Washington costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $40,702 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $44,187 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 Washington is $60,020. 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 ($46,890 to $81,860) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Washington rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $40,702 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $44,187 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.