Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,201
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$13,719
23.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,208
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$57,920
Kept after tax
$44,201
Worth in national money
$42,208
State rank
9
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Oregon's middle earner gets $57,920, putting the state 9 of 49 — about 16.12% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Oregon, this sits in the middle: 294 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Oregon is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $57,920 the take-home is $44,201; in national-average money that behaves like $42,208. The average lands at $55,770, below the middle of the range.
- For septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners, Oregon sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $57,920, ranking 9 of 49 and running about 16.12% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners ranks 294 of 489 occupations in Oregon 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 septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners in Oregon, on $57,920, is $44,201; deflated by the state's price level, $42,208. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $55,770 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,140 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,920 |
| Top tenth earn over | $71,030 |
| This salary | $57,920 |
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 Oregon | $44,201 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,719 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,927 |
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 | $52,297 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,587 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
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 Oregon earn under $57,920 and half over. The published range runs $41,140 at the tenth percentile to $71,030 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 Oregon's $44,201, worked from $57,920. 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 294 of 489.
- Two cautions on $42,208, the adjusted value of that $57,920 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Oregon. 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 294 of 489 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners in Oregon, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $41,140 to $71,030; 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 Oregon take-home of $44,201, on $57,920 for work ranking 294 of 489 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 294 of 489 in the state.
- This $42,208 adjusted figure, worked from $57,920, 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 294 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 294 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $55,770, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $41,140 at the tenth percentile, $71,030 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Oregon costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $42,208 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; Oregon then takes its own share, leaving $44,201.
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 49 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 Oregon is $55,770. 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 ($41,140 to $71,030) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Oregon rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $42,208 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 $44,201 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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.