Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing in Nebraska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,170
after federal, FICA and Nebraska tax
Tax takes
$9,020
18.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,447
Nebraska costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the top tenth percentile for this work in Nebraska — 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
$49,190
Kept after tax
$40,170
Worth in national money
$44,447
State rank
6
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Nebraska pays this job a middle wage of $49,190, ranking 6 of 47 states and sitting about 13.39% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Nebraska, this sits in the middle: 300 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Nebraska is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $49,190 the take-home is $40,170; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $44,447 would nationally. The average lands at $46,750, below the middle of the range.
- Nebraska's median for woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing is $49,190, about 13.39% above the national figure and 6 of 47 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing ranks 300 of 488 occupations in Nebraska 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.
- Post-tax income for woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing in Nebraska, on $49,190, is $40,170 — equivalent to $44,447 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $46,750 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,340 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,190 |
| Top tenth earn over | $49,190 |
| This salary | $49,190 |
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 Nebraska | $40,170 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,704 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,531 |
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 | $47,280 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,851 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,190 as a midpoint for Nebraska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $39,340 and the ninetieth is $49,190 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $40,170 take-home in Nebraska comes from $49,190. 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 300 of 488.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $44,447 uses one figure for the whole of Nebraska. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 488 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 300.
- The Nebraska median of $49,190 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $39,340 to $49,190. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $40,170, from $49,190, assumes a single Nebraska 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 300 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 6 of 47 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $44,447, worked from $49,190, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Nebraska address, on work sitting at 300 of 488 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $46,750, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $39,340 and the top tenth $49,190, so most people doing this work in Nebraska sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Nebraska sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $44,447 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Nebraska adds its own income tax on top — which is why $40,170 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 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 Nebraska is $46,750. 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 ($39,340 to $49,190) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Nebraska rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Nebraska'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 $44,447 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 $40,170 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Nebraska 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.