Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing in Idaho
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,354
after federal, FICA and Idaho tax
Tax takes
$8,376
18.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,857
Idaho costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Idaho — 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
$45,730
Kept after tax
$37,354
Worth in national money
$40,857
State rank
18
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Idaho pays this job around $45,730 at the midpoint, 18 of 47 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Idaho, this sits in the middle: 336 of 476 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Idaho does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $45,730 you keep $37,354, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $40,857 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $45,810, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing the Idaho median is $45,730, ranking 18 of 47 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.
- Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing ranks 336 of 476 occupations in Idaho 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.
- After federal, FICA and Idaho income tax, retained pay for woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing on $45,730 is $37,354. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $40,857 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $45,810 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,980 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,730 |
| Top tenth earn over | $57,670 |
| This salary | $45,730 |
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 Idaho | $37,354 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,924 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$802 |
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 | $43,776 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$969 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 91 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Idaho earn less than $45,730. The published range is $36,980 up to $57,670, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Idaho the take-home figure of $37,354, from $45,730, 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 336 of 476 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $40,857, the adjusted value of that $45,730 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Idaho. 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 336 of 476 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing in Idaho the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,980 to $57,670. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Idaho is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $37,354 from $45,730. 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 336 of 476 locally.
- This $40,857 adjusted figure, worked from $45,730, 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 336 of 476 in the state. The occupation ranks 336 of 476 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,980 at the tenth percentile, $57,670 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Idaho is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $40,857 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 Idaho's own levy, $37,354 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 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 ($36,980 to $57,670) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Idaho rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Idaho'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 $40,857 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 $37,354 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Idaho 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.