Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary in Vermont
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$73,403
after federal, FICA and Vermont tax
Tax takes
$24,577
25.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$75,959
Vermont costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Vermont — 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
$97,980
Kept after tax
$73,403
Worth in national money
$75,959
State rank
4
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Vermont's middle earner gets $97,980, putting the state 4 of 49 — about 24.62% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 453 occupations Vermont reports, this job comes in at 59 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Vermont is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $97,980 the take-home is $73,403; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $75,959 would nationally. The average comes to $98,590, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary, Vermont sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $97,980, ranking 4 of 49 and running about 24.62% 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.
- Art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary ranks 59 of 453 occupations by median in Vermont, 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.
- Post-tax income for art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary in Vermont, on $97,980, is $73,403 — equivalent to $75,959 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 $98,590 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 | $53,190 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $97,980 |
| Top tenth earn over | $134,690 |
| This salary | $97,980 |
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 Vermont | $73,403 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $77,759 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,061 |
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 | $91,788 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,609 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Vermont earn less than $97,980. The published range is $53,190 up to $134,690, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Vermont's $73,403, worked from $97,980. 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 59 of 453.
- Two cautions on $75,959, the adjusted value of that $97,980 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Vermont. 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 59 of 453 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary in Vermont the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $53,190 to $134,690. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Vermont take-home of $73,403, on $97,980 for work ranking 59 of 453 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 59 of 453 in the state.
- This $75,959 adjusted figure, worked from $97,980, 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 59 of 453 in the state. The occupation ranks 59 of 453 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $53,190 at the bottom tenth to $134,690 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $75,959.
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 Vermont's own levy, $73,403 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($53,190) and the ninetieth ($134,690) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Vermont'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 $75,959 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 $73,403 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Vermont 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.