Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping in North Carolina
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,043
after federal, FICA and North Carolina tax
Tax takes
$7,637
17.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,287
North Carolina costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in North Carolina — 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
$43,680
Kept after tax
$36,043
Worth in national money
$38,287
State rank
44
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. North Carolina pays this job a middle wage of $43,680, 44 of 49 states and about 5.82% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within North Carolina this is lower-paid work. Of 489 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 374. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $43,680 you keep $36,043 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $38,287 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $44,330, since top earners drag the number up.
- North Carolina's $43,680 median for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping places it 44 of 49 states, about 5.82% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation North Carolina reports, weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping ranks 374 of 489, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Retained pay in North Carolina is $36,043 after the full tax stack, from $43,680. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $38,287 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $44,330 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 | $33,980 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $43,680 |
| Top tenth earn over | $56,170 |
| This salary | $43,680 |
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 North Carolina | $36,043 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $37,277 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$74 |
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 | $42,144 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$89 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 94 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $43,680 as a midpoint for North Carolina, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,980 and the ninetieth is $56,170 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In North Carolina the take-home figure of $36,043, from $43,680, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 374 of 489 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $38,287, the adjusted value of that $43,680 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of North Carolina. 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 374 of 489 locally.
- The North Carolina median of $43,680 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,980 to $56,170. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for North Carolina is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $36,043 from $43,680. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 374 of 489 locally.
- This $38,287 adjusted figure, worked from $43,680, 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 374 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 374 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $33,980 at the tenth percentile, $56,170 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. North Carolina is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $38,287 in national terms.
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 North Carolina's own levy, $36,043 remains.
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 49 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 ($33,980 to $56,170) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to North Carolina rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
North Carolina'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 $38,287 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 $36,043 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and North Carolina 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.