Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary in Maryland
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$75,721
after federal, FICA and Maryland tax
Tax takes
$25,809
25.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$72,833
Maryland costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Maryland — 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
$101,530
Kept after tax
$75,721
Worth in national money
$72,833
State rank
11
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Maryland is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $101,530, which ranks 11 of 48 states with published figures. That is about 8.88% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 489 occupations Maryland reports, this job comes in at 90 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $101,530, tax leaves $75,721 — and because Maryland is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $72,833 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $112,680, since top earners drag the number up.
- Maryland ranks 11 of 48 states publishing a median for chemistry teachers, postsecondary, at $101,530 — about 8.88% 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.
- Chemistry teachers, postsecondary ranks 90 of 489 occupations by median in Maryland, 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, $75,721 remains from the Maryland median of $101,530 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $72,833 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $112,680 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $62,720 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $101,530 |
| Top tenth earn over | $172,220 |
| This salary | $101,530 |
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 Maryland | $75,721 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $80,256 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,756 |
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 | $95,084 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$13,476 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $101,530 as a midpoint for Maryland, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $62,720 and the ninetieth is $172,220 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $75,721 take-home in Maryland comes from $101,530. 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 90 of 489.
- Two cautions on $72,833, the adjusted value of that $101,530 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Maryland. 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 90 of 489 locally.
- The Maryland median of $101,530 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $62,720 to $172,220. 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 $75,721, from $101,530, assumes a single Maryland 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 90 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 11 of 48 for it.
- This $72,833 adjusted figure, worked from $101,530, 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 90 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 90 of 489 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 $112,680 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 $62,720 at the bottom tenth to $172,220 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Maryland costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $72,833 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 Maryland's own levy, $75,721 remains.
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 48 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 Maryland is $112,680. 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 ($62,720) and the ninetieth ($172,220) 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?
Maryland's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $72,833 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 $75,721 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Maryland 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.