Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers Salary

Yes — at the median salary of $58K, rent takes 28% of take-home pay. A 2-bedroom at the HUD Fair Market Rent runs $1,066/month. That stays under the 30% guideline most financial planners use.

The 10th-percentile wage — what new electric motor, power tool, and related repairers typically earn — is $44K/year. Take-home on that works out to about $2,941/month. At HUD’s $1,066/month FMR, rent would take 36% of that take-home — above the 30% guideline, so a 1-bedroom or shared housing is likely necessary starting out.

Pay here is roughly in line with the national average — $58K locally vs. $56K nationally, a 2% difference.

Kansas pays $58K median vs. the U.S. average of $56K — that’s +2%. After adjusting for local cost of living (RPP 89.54), the purchasing-power equivalent is $64K — still ahead of the national median.

The median is $57,600 a year, that works out to about $28 an hour. But the range is wide: entry-level workers start around $43,670, and experienced electric motor, power tool, and related repairers can clear $108,690. These are BLS numbers, based on employer-reported data, not self-reported surveys.

On that salary, you'd take home roughly $3,808/month after taxes. A 2-bedroom here rents for about $1,066/month, which eats 28% of your paycheck. That's under the 30% guideline most financial planners use, so the numbers work.

Kansas has a Regional Price Parity of 89.54 (100 is the national average). That's below average, your money stretches further here than the raw salary number suggests. After cost-of-living adjustment, the median electric motor, power tool, and related repairers salary is worth about $64,329 in national-average purchasing power.

The table above ranks every state by median pay for this role. Keep in mind that the highest-paying states tend to have the highest costs of living, so the top salary doesn't always mean the most money in your pocket.