Athletic Trainers in Arizona
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,624
after federal, FICA and Arizona tax
Tax takes
$11,086
18.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,070
Arizona costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arizona — 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
$61,710
Kept after tax
$50,624
Worth in national money
$50,070
State rank
25
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Arizona sits in the middle of the pack for athletic trainers. The median is $61,710, ranking 25 of 50 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 491 occupations Arizona reports figures for, this is number 211.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $61,710, tax leaves $50,624, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $50,070 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $65,640, since top earners drag the number up.
- Arizona occupies the middle band for athletic trainers: a median of $61,710, ranking 25 of 50. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- In Arizona's occupational distribution, athletic trainers sits at 211 of 491 — 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.
- Because Arizona sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for athletic trainers — median $61,710 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $50,624 retained, $50,070 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $65,640 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Athletic Trainers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,330 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,710 |
| Top tenth earn over | $89,080 |
| This salary | $61,710 |
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 Arizona | $50,624 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,764 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,198 |
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 | $60,291 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,868 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Arizona earn less than $61,710. The published range is $48,330 up to $89,080, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $50,624 take-home in Arizona comes from $61,710. 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 211 of 491.
- Two cautions on $50,070, the adjusted value of that $61,710 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Arizona. 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 211 of 491 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for athletic trainers in Arizona the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $48,330 to $89,080. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $50,624, from $61,710, assumes a single Arizona 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 211 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 25 of 50 for it.
- This $50,070 adjusted figure, worked from $61,710, 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 211 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 211 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $65,640 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $48,330 at the tenth percentile, $89,080 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Arizona run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $50,070 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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 Arizona's own levy, $50,624 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 Arizona is $65,640. 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 ($48,330 to $89,080) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Arizona rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Arizona's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $50,070 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 $50,624 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arizona 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.