Tile and Stone Setters in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,015
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$19,255
24.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,258
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
$79,270
Kept after tax
$60,015
Worth in national money
$55,258
State rank
2
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for tile and stone setters is strong here. Hawaii's middle earner gets $79,270, putting the state 2 of 47 — about 42.34% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Hawaii, this sits in the middle: 141 of 437 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Hawaii is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $79,270 the take-home is $60,015; in national-average money that behaves like $55,258. The average comes to $87,390, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For tile and stone setters, Hawaii sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $79,270, ranking 2 of 47 and running about 42.34% 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.
- Tile and stone setters ranks 141 of 437 occupations in Hawaii 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.
- Take-home for tile and stone setters in Hawaii, on $79,270, is $60,015; deflated by the state's price level, $55,258. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $87,390 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Tile and Stone Setters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,980 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,270 |
| Top tenth earn over | $114,300 |
| This salary | $79,270 |
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 | $60,015 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,596 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$11,216 |
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 | $72,758 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$15,154 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Hawaii earn less than $79,270. The published range is $43,980 up to $114,300, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Hawaii's $60,015, worked from $79,270. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 141 of 437.
- One number stands for prices across all of Hawaii, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $55,258, the adjusted value of that $79,270 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 141 of 437 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for tile and stone setters in Hawaii the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $43,980 to $114,300. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Hawaii take-home of $60,015, on $79,270 for work ranking 141 of 437 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 141 of 437 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Hawaii, so $55,258 — the adjusted value of that $79,270 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 141 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 $87,390, 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 $43,980 and the top tenth $114,300 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $55,258 of national purchasing power.
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 Hawaii adds its own income tax on top — which is why $60,015 of this wage survives to your account.
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 $87,390. 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 ($43,980) and the ninetieth ($114,300) 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 $55,258 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 $60,015 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.