Structural Iron and Steel Workers in New York
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$69,557
after federal, FICA and New York tax
Tax takes
$23,053
24.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$64,629
New York costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New York — 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
$92,610
Kept after tax
$69,557
Worth in national money
$64,629
State rank
10
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for structural iron and steel workers is strong here. New York's middle earner gets $92,610, putting the state 10 of 50 — about 47.52% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Structural iron and steel workers ranks 142 among 493 occupations New York publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $92,610, tax leaves $69,557 — and because New York is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $64,629 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $92,830, since top earners drag the number up.
- For structural iron and steel workers, New York sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $92,610, ranking 10 of 50 and running about 47.52% 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.
- Position 142 of 493 in New York places structural iron and steel workers 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.
- After tax, $69,557 remains from the New York median of $92,610 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $64,629 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $92,830 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Structural Iron and Steel Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,140 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $92,610 |
| Top tenth earn over | $129,180 |
| This salary | $92,610 |
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 New York | $69,557 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $73,981 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$11,503 |
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 | $86,322 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$15,889 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
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 structural iron and steel workers in New York earn under $92,610 and half over. The published range runs $59,140 at the tenth percentile to $129,180 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 New York's $69,557, worked from $92,610. 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 142 of 493.
- Two cautions on $64,629, the adjusted value of that $92,610 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New York. 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 142 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for structural iron and steel workers in New York, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $59,140 to $129,180; 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 New York take-home of $69,557, on $92,610 for work ranking 142 of 493 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 142 of 493 in the state.
- This $64,629 adjusted figure, worked from $92,610, 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 142 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 142 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $59,140 and the top tenth $129,180 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New York costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $64,629 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and New York's own levy, $69,557 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($59,140) and the ninetieth ($129,180) 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?
New York's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $64,629 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 $69,557 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New York 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.