Business Operations Specialists, All Other in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$67,945
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$20,185
22.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$66,999
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$88,130
Kept after tax
$67,945
Worth in national money
$66,999
State rank
12
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Rhode Island's middle earner gets $88,130, putting the state 12 of 51 — about 6.12% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 118 among 452 occupations Rhode Island publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $88,130 the take-home is $67,945, which is worth about $66,999 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $93,850, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For business operations specialists, all other, Rhode Island sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $88,130, ranking 12 of 51 and running about 6.12% 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.
- Position 118 of 452 in Rhode Island places business operations specialists, all other in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Rhode Island's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for business operations specialists, all other on its $88,130 median: $67,945 retained after tax becomes $66,999 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $93,850 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Business Operations Specialists, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $51,850 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $88,130 |
| Top tenth earn over | $140,610 |
| This salary | $88,130 |
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 Rhode Island | $67,945 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $70,829 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,890 |
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 | $84,029 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,136 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $88,130 as a midpoint for Rhode Island, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $51,850 and the ninetieth is $140,610 — 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 Rhode Island's $67,945, worked from $88,130. 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 118 of 452.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $66,999 uses one figure for the whole of Rhode Island. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 452 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 118.
- The Rhode Island median of $88,130 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $51,850 to $140,610. 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 Rhode Island take-home of $67,945, on $88,130 for work ranking 118 of 452 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 118 of 452 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $66,999, worked from $88,130, 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 Rhode Island address, on work sitting at 118 of 452 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 $93,850, 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $51,850 and the top tenth $140,610 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Rhode Island costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $66,999 rather than its face figure.
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 Rhode Island's own levy, $67,945 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 Rhode Island is $93,850. 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 ($51,850) and the ninetieth ($140,610) 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?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $66,999 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 $67,945 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.