Business Operations Specialists, All Other in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$79,433
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$20,927
20.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$73,169
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
$100,360
Kept after tax
$79,433
Worth in national money
$73,169
State rank
3
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Washington is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $100,360, which ranks 3 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 20.84% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Washington reports, this job comes in at 121 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $100,360, tax leaves $79,433 — and because Washington is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $73,169 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $106,140, since top earners drag the number up.
- Washington ranks 3 of 51 states publishing a median for business operations specialists, all other, at $100,360 — about 20.84% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Business operations specialists, all other ranks 121 of 493 occupations by median in Washington, 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.
- After tax, $79,433 remains from the Washington median of $100,360 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $73,169 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $106,140 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Business Operations Specialists, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $63,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $100,360 |
| Top tenth earn over | $166,820 |
| This salary | $100,360 |
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 | $79,433 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $79,433 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,574 |
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 | $100,360 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$11,843 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of business operations specialists, all other in Washington earn under $100,360 and half over. The published range runs $63,360 at the tenth percentile to $166,820 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $79,433 take-home in Washington comes from $100,360. 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 121 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Washington, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $73,169, the adjusted value of that $100,360 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 121 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for business operations specialists, all other in Washington, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $63,360 to $166,820; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $79,433, from $100,360, assumes a single Washington 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 121 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 3 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Washington, so $73,169 — the adjusted value of that $100,360 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 121 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 $106,140 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $63,360, the highest tenth $166,820, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $73,169 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $79,433 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.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $106,140. 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 ($63,360) and the ninetieth ($166,820) 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?
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 $73,169 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 $79,433 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.
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.