Tile and Stone Setters in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$63,647
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$14,273
18.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,627
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
$77,920
Kept after tax
$63,647
Worth in national money
$58,627
State rank
3
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Washington pays tile and stone setters a middle wage of $77,920, ranking 3 of 47 states and sitting about 39.92% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Washington reports figures for, this is number 214.
- Washington is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $77,920 the take-home is $63,647; in national-average money that behaves like $58,627. The average comes to $79,060, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Washington's median for tile and stone setters is $77,920, about 39.92% above the national figure and 3 of 47 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- In Washington's occupational distribution, tile and stone setters sits at 214 of 493 — 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 tile and stone setters in Washington, on $77,920, is $63,647; deflated by the state's price level, $58,627. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $79,060 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 | $56,560 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,920 |
| Top tenth earn over | $102,720 |
| This salary | $77,920 |
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 | $63,647 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,647 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,870 |
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 | $77,920 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,490 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $77,920 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $56,560 and the ninetieth is $102,720 — 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 Washington's $63,647, worked from $77,920. 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 214 of 493.
- Two cautions on $58,627, the adjusted value of that $77,920 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. 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 214 of 493 locally.
- The Washington median of $77,920 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $56,560 to $102,720. 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 Washington take-home of $63,647, on $77,920 for work ranking 214 of 493 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 214 of 493 in the state.
- This $58,627 adjusted figure, worked from $77,920, 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 214 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 214 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $56,560 at the tenth percentile, $102,720 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Washington costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $58,627 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $63,647 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 ($56,560 to $102,720) 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 $58,627 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 $63,647 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.
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.