Tire Repairers and Changers
What the pay figures show
- A job board will not tell you this about tire repairers and changers. The best headline number is Oregon, at $47,650. State taxes differ, so Washington leaves you more. Prices differ too, so Montana leaves you better off again — $42,117 once levelled out. Moving for the biggest salary can leave you worse off.
- Wage data for tire repairers and changers places Oregon first at $47,650. That position is not robust: state income tax alone reorders it to Washington, and regional price parity reorders it again to Montana at $42,117. Because published comparisons almost universally stop at the nominal median, the state that appears best for this occupation is routinely not the state where a worker's income goes furthest.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$37,710
People doing it
108,410
Highest paid
$47,650
OR
Best off, really
$42,117
MT, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$30,010
Highest tenth
$50,230
Lowest, really
$27,907
MA
States with data
50
National average
$40,170
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
90.24%
MT, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- The state you work in changes what this job pays, but less than you would expect. Level out tax and prices and the whole country sits between $27,907 and $42,117. That is a real difference. It is not usually a moving-house difference.
- 108,410 people do this job across the country, and the middle one earns $37,710. Common work, though not one of the giants.
- This job is not published everywhere — 50 jurisdictions have a figure, with $37,710 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. Oregon tops the ones that are.
- Interstate variation for tire repairers and changers is contained relative to other occupations, and narrows further under adjustment: the real range is $27,907 to $42,117. A differential of this magnitude is real but rarely decisive on its own, which is worth stating plainly against wage tables that present nominal gaps without either adjustment.
- National employment in tire repairers and changers is 108,410 — a substantial occupation, though an order of magnitude below the largest. Regional differentials here move real aggregate sums without dominating any single state's wage bill.
- 50 jurisdictions carry a published median for tire repairers and changers. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Tire Repairers and Changers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,710 |
| Top tenth earn over | $50,230 |
| This salary | $37,710 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Tire Repairers and Changers
The national median for this job
$37,710around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $30,010 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $37,710 |
| Top tenth | $50,230 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Tire Repairers and Changers, state by state
The national median for this job
50states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | West Virginia · $29,880 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Oregon · $47,650 |
| Spread | $17,770 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $36,060 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $37,108 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| MT | $46,360 | $38,008 | $42,117 |
| OH | $41,760 | $35,302 | $38,450 |
| VT | $44,480 | $36,686 | $37,963 |
| DE | $46,630 | $37,626 | $37,909 |
| SD | $38,800 | $33,356 | $37,863 |
| RI | $46,240 | $38,020 | $37,490 |
| ND | $38,220 | $32,890 | $37,133 |
| CO | $45,380 | $37,355 | $36,845 |
| MN | $43,750 | $35,811 | $36,387 |
| AK | $43,330 | $36,996 | $36,372 |
| IA | $38,210 | $32,042 | $36,096 |
| MO | $38,920 | $32,560 | $35,483 |
| WI | $39,560 | $32,870 | $35,307 |
| OR | $47,650 | $36,848 | $35,186 |
| WA | $44,670 | $38,072 | $35,070 |
| MD | $44,430 | $36,133 | $34,755 |
| NV | $39,220 | $33,693 | $34,742 |
| WY | $36,370 | $31,403 | $34,567 |
| VA | $42,370 | $34,549 | $34,292 |
| KS | $37,880 | $30,791 | $34,226 |
| TN | $36,680 | $31,652 | $34,213 |
| ID | $37,570 | $31,230 | $34,159 |
| HI | $45,760 | $36,887 | $33,963 |
| NJ | $44,440 | $36,980 | $33,963 |
| NE | $36,590 | $30,619 | $33,879 |
| AR | $34,450 | $29,045 | $33,574 |
| KY | $36,300 | $30,194 | $33,376 |
| ME | $38,910 | $32,098 | $33,058 |
| OK | $34,890 | $29,145 | $33,012 |
| NY | $43,660 | $35,500 | $32,985 |
| MS | $34,330 | $28,483 | $32,630 |
| LA | $33,900 | $28,788 | $32,586 |
| MI | $37,130 | $30,687 | $32,582 |
| IN | $35,800 | $29,919 | $32,455 |
| PA | $37,840 | $31,423 | $32,228 |
| SC | $35,040 | $29,936 | $32,128 |
| TX | $36,060 | $31,154 | $32,060 |
| AZ | $38,300 | $32,399 | $32,045 |
| AL | $35,010 | $28,827 | $32,041 |
| UT | $36,960 | $30,233 | $31,823 |
| IL | $38,420 | $31,293 | $31,656 |
| NC | $35,140 | $29,522 | $31,360 |
| NH | $37,850 | $32,592 | $30,939 |
| NM | $31,640 | $27,199 | $30,092 |
| GA | $34,700 | $28,929 | $29,916 |
| CA | $39,680 | $33,340 | $29,614 |
| CT | $35,760 | $29,959 | $28,893 |
| FL | $34,010 | $29,507 | $28,522 |
| WV | $29,880 | $25,465 | $28,366 |
| MA | $36,770 | $30,206 | $27,907 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of tire repairers and changers earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $37,710.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for tire repairers and changers. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, Washington keeps the most at $38,072.
- Levelling out prices for tire repairers and changers is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Massachusetts sits at the bottom on $27,907.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for tire repairers and changers, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $37,710, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- The household modeled for tire repairers and changers is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis Washington retains the most, $38,072. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- The price deflation applied to tire repairers and changers uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Massachusetts at $27,907. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Massachusetts anchors the bottom at $27,907 — and the two source series are dated independently.