Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,945
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$7,545
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,165
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$49,490
Kept after tax
$41,945
Worth in national money
$43,165
State rank
39
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Texas pays this job a middle wage of $49,490, 39 of 50 states and about 19.58% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Texas reports figures for, this is number 273.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $49,490 the take-home is $41,945, which is worth about $43,165 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $53,480, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas's $49,490 median for adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors places it 39 of 50 states, about 19.58% 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.
- In Texas's occupational distribution, adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors sits at 273 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors on its $49,490 median: $41,945 retained after tax becomes $43,165 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $53,480 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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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 | $38,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,490 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,790 |
| This salary | $49,490 |
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 Texas | $41,945 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $41,945 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,619 |
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 | $49,490 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,372 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,490 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,640 and the ninetieth is $63,790 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $41,945, from $49,490, 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 273 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $43,165, the adjusted value of that $49,490 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 273 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $49,490 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,640 to $63,790. 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 Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $41,945 from $49,490. 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 273 of 493 locally.
- This $43,165 adjusted figure, worked from $49,490, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 273 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 273 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $53,480, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $38,640 at the tenth percentile, $63,790 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Texas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $43,165 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $41,945 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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.
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 Texas is $53,480. 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 ($38,640 to $63,790) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Texas'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 $43,165 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $41,945 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.