Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Missouri
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,405
after federal, FICA and Missouri tax
Tax takes
$8,885
18.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,033
Missouri costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Missouri — 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
$49,290
Kept after tax
$40,405
Worth in national money
$44,033
State rank
32
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Missouri pays this job around $49,290 at the midpoint, 32 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 299 among 488 occupations Missouri publishes pay for.
- Missouri is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $49,290 the take-home is $40,405; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $44,033 would nationally. The average comes to $52,760, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders the Missouri median is $49,290, ranking 32 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.
- Position 299 of 488 in Missouri places separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Post-tax income for separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders in Missouri, on $49,290, is $40,405 — equivalent to $44,033 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 $52,760 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 | $34,100 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,290 |
| Top tenth earn over | $82,850 |
| This salary | $49,290 |
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 Missouri | $40,405 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,785 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,033 |
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 | $47,573 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,250 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,290 as a midpoint for Missouri, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $34,100 and the ninetieth is $82,850 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Missouri's $40,405, worked from $49,290. 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 299 of 488.
- Two cautions on $44,033, the adjusted value of that $49,290 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Missouri. 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 299 of 488 locally.
- The Missouri median of $49,290 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $34,100 to $82,850. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Missouri take-home of $40,405, on $49,290 for work ranking 299 of 488 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 299 of 488 in the state.
- This $44,033 adjusted figure, worked from $49,290, 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 299 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 299 of 488 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 $52,760, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $34,100 and the top tenth $82,850 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Missouri is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $44,033 in national terms.
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 Missouri adds its own income tax on top — which is why $40,405 of this wage survives to your account.
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 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Missouri is $52,760. 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 ($34,100) and the ninetieth ($82,850) 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?
Missouri'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 $44,033 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 $40,405 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Missouri 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.