Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,470
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$6,830
16.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,004
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$40,300
Kept after tax
$33,470
Worth in national money
$33,004
State rank
46
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Rhode Island. The middle earner gets $40,300. That is 46 of 49 states, and about 13.11% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 452 occupations Rhode Island publishes, this job lands at 389. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $40,300, tax leaves $33,470, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $33,004 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $42,780, since top earners drag the number up.
- For weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping, Rhode Island sits in the lower band at $40,300, ranking 46 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 13.11%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Rhode Island, this work ranks 389 of 452 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 Rhode Island sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping — median $40,300 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $33,470 retained, $33,004 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $42,780 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 | $37,950 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,300 |
| Top tenth earn over | $48,940 |
| This salary | $40,300 |
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 Rhode Island | $33,470 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,561 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,562 |
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 | $38,942 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,098 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Rhode Island earn less than $40,300. The published range is $37,950 up to $48,940, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Rhode Island the take-home figure of $33,470, from $40,300, 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 389 of 452 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Rhode Island, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $33,004, the adjusted value of that $40,300 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 389 of 452 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping in Rhode Island the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $37,950 to $48,940. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Rhode Island is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $33,470 from $40,300. 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 389 of 452 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Rhode Island, so $33,004 — the adjusted value of that $40,300 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 389 of 452 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $42,780, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $37,950 at the bottom tenth to $48,940 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $33,004 of national purchasing power.
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 Rhode Island's own levy, $33,470 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 Rhode Island is $42,780. 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 ($37,950 to $48,940) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Rhode Island rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $33,004 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 $33,470 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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.