Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping in Arkansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,507
after federal, FICA and Arkansas tax
Tax takes
$7,983
17.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,356
Arkansas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arkansas — 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
$45,490
Kept after tax
$37,507
Worth in national money
$43,356
State rank
35
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Arkansas. The middle earner gets $45,490. That is 35 of 49 states, and about 1.92% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Arkansas, this sits in the middle: 283 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $45,490 you keep $37,507 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $43,356 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $43,950.
- For weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping, Arkansas sits in the lower band at $45,490, ranking 35 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 1.92%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping ranks 283 of 489 occupations in Arkansas 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.
- Retained pay in Arkansas is $37,507 after the full tax stack, from $45,490. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $43,356 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $43,950 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,490 |
| Top tenth earn over | $52,000 |
| This salary | $45,490 |
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 Arkansas | $37,507 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,731 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,499 |
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 | $43,966 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,232 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Arkansas earn less than $45,490. The published range is $35,640 up to $52,000, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $37,507 take-home in Arkansas comes from $45,490. 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 283 of 489.
- Two cautions on $43,356, the adjusted value of that $45,490 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Arkansas. 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 283 of 489 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping in Arkansas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $35,640 to $52,000. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $37,507, from $45,490, assumes a single Arkansas 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 283 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 35 of 49 for it.
- This $43,356 adjusted figure, worked from $45,490, 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 283 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 283 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $43,950 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $35,640 at the bottom tenth to $52,000 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $43,356.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Arkansas's own levy, $37,507 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Arkansas is $43,950. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($35,640 to $52,000) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Arkansas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Arkansas'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 $43,356 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 $37,507 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arkansas 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.