Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators Salary

Yes — at the median salary of $56K, rent takes 29.9% of take-home pay. A 2-bedroom at the HUD Fair Market Rent runs $1,179/month. That stays under the 30% guideline most financial planners use.

The 10th-percentile wage — what new postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators typically earn — is $46K/year. Take-home on that works out to about $2,732/month.

Pay here is roughly in line with the national average — $56K locally vs. $58K nationally, a 4% difference.

Puerto Rico pays $56K median vs. the U.S. average of $58K — that’s -4%.

The median is $56,390 a year, that works out to about $27 an hour. But the range is wide: entry-level workers start around $45,530, and experienced postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators can clear $75,030. These are BLS numbers, based on employer-reported data, not self-reported surveys.

On that salary, you'd take home roughly $3,946/month after taxes. A 2-bedroom here rents for about $1,179/month, which eats 29.9% of your paycheck. That's under the 30% guideline most financial planners use, so the numbers work.

Puerto Rico has a Regional Price Parity of 100 (100 is the national average). That's right at the national average. After cost-of-living adjustment, the median postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators salary is worth about $56,390 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.