Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners in Arizona
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,694
after federal, FICA and Arizona tax
Tax takes
$7,976
16.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,260
Arizona costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arizona — 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
$47,670
Kept after tax
$39,694
Worth in national money
$39,260
State rank
30
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Arizona pays this job around $47,670 at the midpoint, 30 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 342 among 491 occupations Arizona publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $47,670, tax leaves $39,694, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $39,260 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $50,160, since top earners drag the number up.
- For septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners the Arizona median is $47,670, ranking 30 of 49 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 342 of 491 in Arizona places septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners 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.
- Because Arizona sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners — median $47,670 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $39,694 retained, $39,260 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $50,160 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,450 |
| This salary | $47,670 |
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 Arizona | $39,694 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,483 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,400 |
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 | $46,688 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,903 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners in Arizona earn under $47,670 and half over. The published range runs $35,360 at the tenth percentile to $62,450 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Arizona's $39,694, worked from $47,670. 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 342 of 491.
- Two cautions on $39,260, the adjusted value of that $47,670 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Arizona. 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 342 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners in Arizona, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,360 to $62,450; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Arizona take-home of $39,694, on $47,670 for work ranking 342 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 342 of 491 in the state.
- This $39,260 adjusted figure, worked from $47,670, 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 342 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 342 of 491 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 $50,160 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $35,360 and the top tenth $62,450, so most people doing this work in Arizona sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Arizona costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $39,260 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Arizona then takes its own share, leaving $39,694.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 Arizona is $50,160. 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 ($35,360 to $62,450) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Arizona rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Arizona's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $39,260 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 $39,694 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arizona 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.