Chief Executives in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$188,336
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$69,514
27.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$193,811
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
$257,850
Kept after tax
$188,336
Worth in national money
$193,811
State rank
11
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Texas pays chief executives a middle wage of $257,850, ranking 11 of 46 states and sitting about 20.5% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Texas reports, chief executives comes in at 2 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $257,850 the take-home is $188,336, which is worth about $193,811 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $310,660, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas's median for chief executives is $257,850, about 20.5% above the national figure and 11 of 46 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Chief executives ranks 2 of 493 occupations by median in Texas, 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.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for chief executives on its $257,850 median: $188,336 retained after tax becomes $193,811 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $310,660 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Chief Executives
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $121,130 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $257,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $558,550 |
| This salary | $257,850 |
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 | $188,336 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $188,336 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$11,760 |
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 | $257,850 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$18,725 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $257,850. The published range is $121,130 up to $558,550, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $188,336, worked from $257,850. 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 2 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $193,811, the adjusted value of that $257,850 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 2 of 493 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for chief executives in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $121,130 to $558,550. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Texas take-home of $188,336, on $257,850 for work ranking 2 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 2 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $193,811 — the adjusted value of that $257,850 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 2 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $310,660, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $121,130, the highest tenth $558,550, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $193,811.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $188,336 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $310,660. 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 ($121,130) and the ninetieth ($558,550) 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 $193,811 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 $188,336 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.