Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers in Utah
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,008
after federal, FICA and Utah tax
Tax takes
$13,642
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,744
Utah costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Utah — 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
$65,650
Kept after tax
$52,008
Worth in national money
$54,744
State rank
22
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Utah is 22 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $65,650. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Utah, this sits in the middle: 177 of 487 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Utah is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $65,650 the take-home is $52,008; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $54,744 would nationally. The average comes to $68,010, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Utah ranks 22 of 51 for telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers at $65,650. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers ranks 177 of 487 occupations in Utah 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.
- Post-tax income for telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers in Utah, on $65,650, is $52,008 — equivalent to $54,744 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $68,010 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,110 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $65,650 |
| Top tenth earn over | $89,180 |
| This salary | $65,650 |
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 Utah | $52,008 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,930 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,782 |
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 | $62,014 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,155 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 95 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $65,650 as a midpoint for Utah, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $47,110 and the ninetieth is $89,180 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $52,008 take-home in Utah comes from $65,650. 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 177 of 487.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $54,744 uses one figure for the whole of Utah. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 487 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 177.
- The Utah median of $65,650 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $47,110 to $89,180. 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 $52,008, from $65,650, assumes a single Utah 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 177 of 487 locally, and the state ranks 22 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $54,744, worked from $65,650, 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 Utah address, on work sitting at 177 of 487 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 $68,010, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $47,110 at the bottom tenth to $89,180 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Utah sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $54,744 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Utah adds its own income tax on top — which is why $52,008 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 Utah is $68,010. 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 ($47,110 to $89,180) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Utah rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Utah's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $54,744 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $52,008 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Utah 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.