Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary in New York
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$73,579
after federal, FICA and New York tax
Tax takes
$25,271
25.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$68,366
New York costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New York — 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
$98,850
Kept after tax
$73,579
Worth in national money
$68,366
State rank
3
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New York pays this job a middle wage of $98,850, ranking 3 of 49 states and sitting about 25.73% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations New York reports, this job comes in at 114 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- New York is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $98,850 the take-home is $73,579; in national-average money that behaves like $68,366. The average comes to $128,810, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New York's median for art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary is $98,850, about 25.73% above the national figure and 3 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary ranks 114 of 493 occupations by median in New York, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Take-home for art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary in New York, on $98,850, is $73,579; deflated by the state's price level, $68,366. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $128,810 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $58,140 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $98,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $272,120 |
| This salary | $98,850 |
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 New York | $73,579 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $78,371 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$12,284 |
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 | $92,038 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$16,968 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $98,850 as a midpoint for New York, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $58,140 and the ninetieth is $272,120 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $73,579 take-home in New York comes from $98,850. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 114 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of New York, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $68,366, the adjusted value of that $98,850 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 114 of 493 in the state.
- The New York median of $98,850 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $58,140 to $272,120. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $73,579, from $98,850, assumes a single New York filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 114 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 3 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for New York, so $68,366 — the adjusted value of that $98,850 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 114 of 493 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 $128,810, 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $58,140 at the bottom tenth to $272,120 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $68,366 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and New York's own levy, $73,579 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 New York is $128,810. 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 ($58,140) and the ninetieth ($272,120) 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?
New York's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $68,366 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 $73,579 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New York 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.