Buyers and Purchasing Agents in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,331
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$13,719
18.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$64,143
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$76,050
Kept after tax
$62,331
Worth in national money
$64,143
State rank
21
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Texas pays buyers and purchasing agents around $76,050 at the midpoint, 21 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Buyers and purchasing agents ranks 138 among 493 occupations Texas publishes pay for.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $76,050, take-home of $62,331 is worth roughly $64,143 in national money. The average comes to $80,830, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For buyers and purchasing agents the Texas median is $76,050, ranking 21 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 138 of 493 in Texas places buyers and purchasing agents 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.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for buyers and purchasing agents, whose median is $76,050, the adjusted figure of $64,143 differs little from $62,331 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $80,830 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Buyers and Purchasing Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $76,050 |
| Top tenth earn over | $124,140 |
| This salary | $76,050 |
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 Texas | $62,331 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $62,331 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,892 |
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 | $76,050 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,723 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $76,050 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $47,760 and the ninetieth is $124,140 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $62,331 take-home in Texas comes from $76,050. 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 138 of 493.
- Two cautions on $64,143, the adjusted value of that $76,050 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 138 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $76,050 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $47,760 to $124,140. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $62,331, from $76,050, assumes a single Texas 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 138 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 21 of 51 for it.
- This $64,143 adjusted figure, worked from $76,050, 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 138 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 138 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 $80,830 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $47,760 at the bottom tenth to $124,140 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $64,143 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $62,331 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 Texas is $80,830. 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 ($47,760) and the ninetieth ($124,140) 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?
Texas'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 $64,143 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $62,331 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.