Athletic Trainers in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,403
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$10,347
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,191
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$63,750
Kept after tax
$53,403
Worth in national money
$49,191
State rank
17
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Washington sits in the middle of the pack for athletic trainers. The median is $63,750, ranking 17 of 50 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Washington, this sits in the middle: 279 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Washington is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $63,750 the take-home is $53,403; in national-average money that behaves like $49,191. The average comes to $67,670, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Washington occupies the middle band for athletic trainers: a median of $63,750, ranking 17 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.
- Athletic trainers ranks 279 of 493 occupations in Washington 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.
- Take-home for athletic trainers in Washington, on $63,750, is $53,403; deflated by the state's price level, $49,191. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $67,670 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Athletic Trainers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,290 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,750 |
| Top tenth earn over | $88,610 |
| This salary | $63,750 |
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 Washington | $53,403 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,403 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,764 |
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 | $63,750 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,971 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $63,750 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,290 and the ninetieth is $88,610 — 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 Washington's $53,403, worked from $63,750. 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 279 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $49,191 uses one figure for the whole of Washington. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 279.
- The Washington median of $63,750 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,290 to $88,610. 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 Washington take-home of $53,403, on $63,750 for work ranking 279 of 493 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 279 of 493 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $49,191, worked from $63,750, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Washington address, on work sitting at 279 of 493 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 $67,670 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 — $49,290 at the tenth percentile, $88,610 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Washington run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $49,191 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $53,403 of this wage reaches your account, because Washington 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 Washington is $67,670. 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 ($49,290 to $88,610) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Washington rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $49,191 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $53,403 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.