Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,345
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$13,725
18.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,428
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$76,070
Kept after tax
$62,345
Worth in national money
$57,428
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Washington pays this job a middle wage of $76,070, ranking 17 of 51 states and sitting about 2.34% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 230 among 493 occupations Washington publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $76,070, tax leaves $62,345 — and because Washington is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $57,428 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $75,420.
- Washington's median for telecommunications line installers and repairers is $76,070, about 2.34% above the national figure and 17 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 230 of 493 in Washington places telecommunications line installers and repairers 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, $62,345 remains from the Washington median of $76,070 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $57,428 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $75,420 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,320 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $76,070 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,360 |
| This salary | $76,070 |
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 Washington | $62,345 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $62,345 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,729 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
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 | $76,070 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,295 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $76,070 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,320 and the ninetieth is $103,360 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $62,345 take-home in Washington comes from $76,070. 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 230 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Washington, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $57,428, the adjusted value of that $76,070 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 230 of 493 in the state.
- The Washington median of $76,070 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,320 to $103,360. 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 $62,345, from $76,070, assumes a single Washington 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 230 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 17 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Washington, so $57,428 — the adjusted value of that $76,070 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 230 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $49,320 at the bottom tenth to $103,360 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $57,428 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $62,345 survives, because Washington levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($49,320 to $103,360) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Washington rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $57,428 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $62,345 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.