Accountants and Auditors in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,022
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$17,478
23.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,502
Hawaii costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Hawaii — 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
$74,500
Kept after tax
$57,022
Worth in national money
$52,502
State rank
46
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Hawaii pays accountants and auditors a middle wage of $74,500, 46 of 51 states and about 10.97% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Accountants and auditors ranks 166 among 437 occupations Hawaii publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $74,500, tax leaves $57,022 — and because Hawaii is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $52,502 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $79,300, since top earners drag the number up.
- Hawaii's $74,500 median for accountants and auditors places it 46 of 51 states, about 10.97% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Position 166 of 437 in Hawaii places accountants and auditors in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $57,022 remains from the Hawaii median of $74,500 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $52,502 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $79,300 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Accountants and Auditors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,860 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $117,840 |
| This salary | $74,500 |
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 Hawaii | $57,022 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,241 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$10,519 |
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 | $68,503 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$13,717 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $74,500 as a midpoint for Hawaii, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,860 and the ninetieth is $117,840 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Hawaii the take-home figure of $57,022, from $74,500, 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 166 of 437 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Hawaii, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $52,502, the adjusted value of that $74,500 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 166 of 437 in the state.
- The Hawaii median of $74,500 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,860 to $117,840. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Hawaii is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $57,022 from $74,500. 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 166 of 437 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Hawaii, so $52,502 — the adjusted value of that $74,500 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 166 of 437 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 $79,300, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $49,860 and the top tenth $117,840 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Hawaii costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $52,502 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Hawaii then takes its own share, leaving $57,022.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 Hawaii is $79,300. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($49,860) and the ninetieth ($117,840) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Hawaii's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $52,502 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 $57,022 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Hawaii 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.