Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,733
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$7,737
15.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,190
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$50,470
Kept after tax
$42,733
Worth in national money
$46,190
State rank
24
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Tennessee is 24 of 50 states for this job, with a middle wage of $50,470. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Tennessee, this sits in the middle: 266 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Tennessee is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $50,470 the take-home is $42,733; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $46,190 would nationally. The average lands at $50,000, below the middle of the range.
- Tennessee ranks 24 of 50 for separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders at $50,470. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders ranks 266 of 491 occupations in Tennessee 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.
- Post-tax income for separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders in Tennessee, on $50,470, is $42,733 — equivalent to $46,190 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 $50,000 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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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 | $33,830 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,470 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,280 |
| This salary | $50,470 |
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 Tennessee | $42,733 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,733 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,215 |
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 | $50,470 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,679 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Tennessee earn less than $50,470. The published range is $33,830 up to $75,280, 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 Tennessee's $42,733, worked from $50,470. 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 266 of 491.
- Two cautions on $46,190, the adjusted value of that $50,470 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Tennessee. 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 266 of 491 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders in Tennessee the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $33,830 to $75,280. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Tennessee take-home of $42,733, on $50,470 for work ranking 266 of 491 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 266 of 491 in the state.
- This $46,190 adjusted figure, worked from $50,470, 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 266 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 266 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $33,830, the highest tenth $75,280, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $46,190.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $42,733 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?
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($33,830) and the ninetieth ($75,280) 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?
Tennessee'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 $46,190 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $42,733 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.