Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping in Arizona
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,230
after federal, FICA and Arizona tax
Tax takes
$7,560
16.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,812
Arizona costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arizona — 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
$45,790
Kept after tax
$38,230
Worth in national money
$37,812
State rank
30
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Arizona pays this job around $45,790 at the midpoint, 30 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 491 occupations Arizona publishes, this job lands at 373. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $45,790, tax leaves $38,230, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $37,812 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $46,690, since top earners drag the number up.
- For weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping the Arizona median is $45,790, ranking 30 of 49 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.
- Within Arizona, this work ranks 373 of 491 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Arizona sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping — median $45,790 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $38,230 retained, $37,812 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $46,690 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,790 |
| Top tenth earn over | $57,810 |
| This salary | $45,790 |
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 Arizona | $38,230 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,972 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,293 |
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 | $44,866 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,773 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping in Arizona earn under $45,790 and half over. The published range runs $37,300 at the tenth percentile to $57,810 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $38,230 take-home in Arizona comes from $45,790. 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 373 of 491.
- One number stands for prices across all of Arizona, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $37,812, the adjusted value of that $45,790 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 373 of 491 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping in Arizona, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,300 to $57,810; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $38,230, from $45,790, assumes a single Arizona 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 373 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 30 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Arizona, so $37,812 — the adjusted value of that $45,790 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 373 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $37,300 at the tenth percentile, $57,810 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Arizona costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $37,812 rather than its face figure.
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 Arizona adds its own income tax on top — which is why $38,230 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($37,300 to $57,810) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Arizona rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Arizona's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $37,812 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 $38,230 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arizona 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.