Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,771
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$10,299
20.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,540
Hawaii costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Hawaii — 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
$51,070
Kept after tax
$40,771
Worth in national money
$37,540
State rank
22
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Hawaii pays this job around $51,070 at the midpoint, 22 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Hawaii, this sits in the middle: 304 of 437 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Hawaii is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $51,070 the take-home is $40,771; in national-average money that behaves like $37,540. The average comes to $53,270, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders the Hawaii median is $51,070, ranking 22 of 50 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.
- Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders ranks 304 of 437 occupations in Hawaii 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 separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders in Hawaii, on $51,070, is $40,771; deflated by the state's price level, $37,540. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $53,270 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,710 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,070 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,500 |
| This salary | $51,070 |
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 Hawaii | $40,771 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,215 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,932 |
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 | $48,029 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,383 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $51,070 as a midpoint for Hawaii, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,710 and the ninetieth is $75,500 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $40,771 take-home in Hawaii comes from $51,070. 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 304 of 437.
- One number stands for prices across all of Hawaii, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $37,540, the adjusted value of that $51,070 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 304 of 437 in the state.
- The Hawaii median of $51,070 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,710 to $75,500. 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 $40,771, from $51,070, assumes a single Hawaii 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 304 of 437 locally, and the state ranks 22 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Hawaii, so $37,540 — the adjusted value of that $51,070 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 304 of 437 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $53,270, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $37,710, the highest tenth $75,500, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Hawaii costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $37,540 rather than its face figure.
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 Hawaii adds its own income tax on top — which is why $40,771 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 Hawaii is $53,270. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($37,710) and the ninetieth ($75,500) 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?
Hawaii's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $37,540 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 $40,771 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Hawaii 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.