Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers in Arizona
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,566
after federal, FICA and Arizona tax
Tax takes
$14,144
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,926
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
$72,710
Kept after tax
$58,566
Worth in national money
$57,926
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Arizona's middle earner gets $72,710, putting the state 17 of 51 — about 13.8% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Arizona, this sits in the middle: 151 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $72,710 the take-home is $58,566, which is worth about $57,926 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $66,570, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers, Arizona sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $72,710, ranking 17 of 51 and running about 13.8% 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.
- Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers ranks 151 of 491 occupations in Arizona 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.
- Arizona's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers on its $72,710 median: $58,566 retained after tax becomes $57,926 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $66,570 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,580 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $72,710 |
| Top tenth earn over | $93,720 |
| This salary | $72,710 |
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 | $58,566 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $59,981 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,799 |
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 | $70,698 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,248 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Arizona earn less than $72,710. The published range is $38,580 up to $93,720, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Arizona the take-home figure of $58,566, from $72,710, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 151 of 491 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $57,926 uses one figure for the whole of Arizona. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 491 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 151.
- Reported values are medians; for telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers in Arizona the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $38,580 to $93,720. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Arizona is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $58,566 from $72,710. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 151 of 491 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $57,926, worked from $72,710, 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 Arizona address, on work sitting at 151 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 $66,570 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $38,580, the highest tenth $93,720, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $57,926 of national purchasing power.
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 $58,566.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $66,570. 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 ($38,580) and the ninetieth ($93,720) 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?
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 $57,926 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 $58,566 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.