Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors in Louisiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$54,253
after federal, FICA and Louisiana tax
Tax takes
$12,617
18.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$61,411
Louisiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Louisiana — 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
$66,870
Kept after tax
$54,253
Worth in national money
$61,411
State rank
8
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Louisiana's middle earner gets $66,870, putting the state 8 of 50 — about 8.66% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Louisiana, this sits in the middle: 136 of 484 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Louisiana is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $66,870 the take-home is $54,253; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $61,411 would nationally. The average lands at $65,600, below the middle of the range.
- For adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors, Louisiana sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $66,870, ranking 8 of 50 and running about 8.66% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors ranks 136 of 484 occupations in Louisiana 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 adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors in Louisiana, on $66,870, is $54,253 — equivalent to $61,411 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 $65,600 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,860 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $66,870 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,250 |
| This salary | $66,870 |
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 Louisiana | $54,253 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $55,873 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,913 |
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 | $64,808 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,405 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $66,870 as a midpoint for Louisiana, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $42,860 and the ninetieth is $83,250 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Louisiana's $54,253, worked from $66,870. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 136 of 484.
- One number stands for prices across all of Louisiana, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $61,411, the adjusted value of that $66,870 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 136 of 484 in the state.
- The Louisiana median of $66,870 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $42,860 to $83,250. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Louisiana take-home of $54,253, on $66,870 for work ranking 136 of 484 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 136 of 484 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Louisiana, so $61,411 — the adjusted value of that $66,870 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 136 of 484 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $42,860 at the tenth percentile, $83,250 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Louisiana is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $61,411 in national terms.
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; Louisiana then takes its own share, leaving $54,253.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($42,860 to $83,250) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Louisiana rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Louisiana'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 $61,411 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 $54,253 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Louisiana 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.