Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood in New Jersey
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,122
after federal, FICA and New Jersey tax
Tax takes
$7,508
16.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,094
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
$44,630
Kept after tax
$37,122
Worth in national money
$34,094
State rank
20
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. New Jersey pays this job around $44,630 at the midpoint, 20 of 46 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Measured against other jobs in New Jersey, this one sits low: 404 of 490 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $44,630, tax leaves $37,122 — and because New Jersey is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $34,094 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $46,010, since top earners drag the number up.
- For sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood the New Jersey median is $44,630, ranking 20 of 46 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood occupies position 404 of 490 in New Jersey's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- After tax, $37,122 remains from the New Jersey median of $44,630 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $34,094 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $46,010 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,750 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $44,630 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,090 |
| This salary | $44,630 |
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 | $37,122 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,040 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,052 |
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 | $43,487 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,110 |
| 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 New Jersey earn less than $44,630. The published range is $34,750 up to $58,090, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $37,122 take-home in New Jersey comes from $44,630. 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 404 of 490.
- Two cautions on $34,094, the adjusted value of that $44,630 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New Jersey. 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 404 of 490 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood in New Jersey the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,750 to $58,090. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $37,122, from $44,630, 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 404 of 490 locally, and the state ranks 20 of 46 for it.
- This $34,094 adjusted figure, worked from $44,630, 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 404 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 404 of 490 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 $46,010 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 — $34,750 at the tenth percentile, $58,090 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in New Jersey run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $34,094 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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 New Jersey adds its own income tax on top — which is why $37,122 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 46 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 New Jersey is $46,010. 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 ($34,750 to $58,090) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to New Jersey rather than a national figure.
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 $34,094 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 $37,122 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.
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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.