Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$35,417
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$8,333
19.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,609
Hawaii costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Hawaii — 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
$43,750
Kept after tax
$35,417
Worth in national money
$32,609
State rank
44
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Hawaii pays this job a middle wage of $43,750, 44 of 47 states and about 14.77% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Hawaii this is lower-paid work. Of 437 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 383. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Hawaii is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $43,750 the take-home is $35,417; in national-average money that behaves like $32,609. The average comes to $48,970, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Hawaii's $43,750 median for structural metal fabricators and fitters places it 44 of 47 states, about 14.77% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation Hawaii reports, structural metal fabricators and fitters ranks 383 of 437, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Take-home for structural metal fabricators and fitters in Hawaii, on $43,750, is $35,417; deflated by the state's price level, $32,609. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $48,970 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $43,750 |
| Top tenth earn over | $69,570 |
| This salary | $43,750 |
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 Hawaii | $35,417 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $37,333 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,809 |
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 | $41,365 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,025 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
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 metal fabricators and fitters in Hawaii earn under $43,750 and half over. The published range runs $35,760 at the tenth percentile to $69,570 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $35,417 take-home in Hawaii comes from $43,750. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 383 of 437.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $32,609 uses one figure for the whole of Hawaii. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 437 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 383.
- Figures are distribution medians for structural metal fabricators and fitters in Hawaii, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,760 to $69,570; 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.
- Retained pay of $35,417, from $43,750, assumes a single Hawaii filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 383 of 437 locally, and the state ranks 44 of 47 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $32,609, worked from $43,750, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Hawaii address, on work sitting at 383 of 437 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 $48,970, 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 $35,760 and the top tenth $69,570 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Hawaii run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $32,609 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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 Hawaii's own levy, $35,417 remains.
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 47 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 Hawaii is $48,970. 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 ($35,760) and the ninetieth ($69,570) 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?
Hawaii's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $32,609 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 $35,417 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Hawaii 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.