Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,003
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$19,247
24.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,246
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
$79,250
Kept after tax
$60,003
Worth in national money
$55,246
State rank
6
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Hawaii's middle earner gets $79,250, putting the state 6 of 51 — about 24.04% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 437 occupations Hawaii reports figures for, this is number 143.
- Hawaii is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $79,250 the take-home is $60,003; in national-average money that behaves like $55,246. The average lands at $76,040, below the middle of the range.
- For telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers, Hawaii sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $79,250, ranking 6 of 51 and running about 24.04% 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.
- In Hawaii's occupational distribution, telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers sits at 143 of 437 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Take-home for telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers in Hawaii, on $79,250, is $60,003; deflated by the state's price level, $55,246. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $76,040 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $51,530 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,250 |
| Top tenth earn over | $96,970 |
| This salary | $79,250 |
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 | $60,003 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,582 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$11,213 |
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 | $72,740 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$15,148 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $79,250 as a midpoint for Hawaii, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $51,530 and the ninetieth is $96,970 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $60,003 take-home in Hawaii comes from $79,250. 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 143 of 437.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $55,246 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 143.
- The Hawaii median of $79,250 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $51,530 to $96,970. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $60,003, from $79,250, 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 143 of 437 locally, and the state ranks 6 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $55,246, worked from $79,250, 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 143 of 437 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 $76,040 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $51,530 at the tenth percentile, $96,970 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Hawaii costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $55,246 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 Hawaii's own levy, $60,003 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $76,040. 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 ($51,530 to $96,970) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Hawaii rather than a national figure.
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 $55,246 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 $60,003 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.
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.