Tile and Stone Setters in Vermont
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,472
after federal, FICA and Vermont tax
Tax takes
$10,418
18.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,055
Vermont costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Vermont — 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
$55,890
Kept after tax
$45,472
Worth in national money
$47,055
State rank
19
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Vermont pays tile and stone setters around $55,890 at the midpoint, 19 of 47 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Tile and stone setters ranks 273 among 453 occupations Vermont publishes pay for.
- Vermont is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $55,890 the take-home is $45,472; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $47,055 would nationally. The average comes to $55,920, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For tile and stone setters the Vermont median is $55,890, ranking 19 of 47 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 273 of 453 in Vermont places tile and stone setters 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.
- Post-tax income for tile and stone setters in Vermont, on $55,890, is $45,472 — equivalent to $47,055 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 $55,920 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 | $46,810 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $55,890 |
| Top tenth earn over | $65,000 |
| This salary | $55,890 |
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 Vermont | $45,472 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,088 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,402 |
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 | $53,879 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,695 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $55,890 as a midpoint for Vermont, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $46,810 and the ninetieth is $65,000 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Vermont's $45,472, worked from $55,890. 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 273 of 453.
- Two cautions on $47,055, the adjusted value of that $55,890 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Vermont. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 273 of 453 locally.
- The Vermont median of $55,890 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $46,810 to $65,000. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Vermont take-home of $45,472, on $55,890 for work ranking 273 of 453 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 273 of 453 in the state.
- This $47,055 adjusted figure, worked from $55,890, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 273 of 453 in the state. The occupation ranks 273 of 453 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $46,810 at the bottom tenth to $65,000 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 Vermont sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $47,055 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 Vermont adds its own income tax on top — which is why $45,472 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($46,810 to $65,000) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Vermont rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Vermont'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 $47,055 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 $45,472 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Vermont 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.