Child, Family, and School Social Workers in Michigan
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,535
after federal, FICA and Michigan tax
Tax takes
$11,735
19.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,471
Michigan costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Michigan — 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
$59,270
Kept after tax
$47,535
Worth in national money
$50,471
State rank
25
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Michigan pays this job around $59,270 at the midpoint, 25 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Michigan, this sits in the middle: 246 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Michigan is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $59,270 the take-home is $47,535; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $50,471 would nationally. The average comes to $61,060, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For child, family, and school social workers the Michigan median is $59,270, ranking 25 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.
- Child, family, and school social workers ranks 246 of 493 occupations in Michigan by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Post-tax income for child, family, and school social workers in Michigan, on $59,270, is $47,535 — equivalent to $50,471 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $61,060 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Child, Family, and School Social Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,260 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,270 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,100 |
| This salary | $59,270 |
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 Michigan | $47,535 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,803 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$781 |
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 | $56,447 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$944 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 94 |
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 child, family, and school social workers in Michigan earn under $59,270 and half over. The published range runs $41,260 at the tenth percentile to $81,100 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Michigan the take-home figure of $47,535, from $59,270, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 246 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $50,471, the adjusted value of that $59,270 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Michigan. 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 246 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for child, family, and school social workers in Michigan, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $41,260 to $81,100; 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.
- Take-home for Michigan is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $47,535 from $59,270. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 246 of 493 locally.
- This $50,471 adjusted figure, worked from $59,270, 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 246 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 246 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 $61,060 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $41,260 at the tenth percentile, $81,100 at the ninetieth.
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 $50,471.
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 Michigan's own levy, $47,535 remains.
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 Michigan is $61,060. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($41,260 to $81,100) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Michigan rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Michigan'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 $50,471 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $47,535 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Michigan 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.