Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians in New York
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,354
after federal, FICA and New York tax
Tax takes
$16,436
22.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,290
New York costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New York — 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
$73,790
Kept after tax
$57,354
Worth in national money
$53,290
State rank
9
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New York's middle earner gets $73,790, putting the state 9 of 50 — about 13.61% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in New York, this sits in the middle: 221 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- New York is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $73,790 the take-home is $57,354; in national-average money that behaves like $53,290. The average lands at $73,130, below the middle of the range.
- For civil engineering technologists and technicians, New York sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $73,790, ranking 9 of 50 and running about 13.61% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Civil engineering technologists and technicians ranks 221 of 493 occupations in New York 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.
- Take-home for civil engineering technologists and technicians in New York, on $73,790, is $57,354; deflated by the state's price level, $53,290. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $73,130 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,730 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $73,790 |
| Top tenth earn over | $99,490 |
| This salary | $73,790 |
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 New York | $57,354 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,741 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,217 |
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 | $68,975 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$12,055 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
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 civil engineering technologists and technicians in New York earn under $73,790 and half over. The published range runs $46,730 at the tenth percentile to $99,490 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In New York the take-home figure of $57,354, from $73,790, 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 221 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $53,290, the adjusted value of that $73,790 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New York. 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 221 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for civil engineering technologists and technicians in New York, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $46,730 to $99,490; 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 New York is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $57,354 from $73,790. 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 221 of 493 locally.
- This $53,290 adjusted figure, worked from $73,790, 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 221 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 221 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $46,730 at the tenth percentile, $99,490 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $53,290 of national purchasing power.
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 New York's own levy, $57,354 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($46,730 to $99,490) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to New York rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New York's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $53,290 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 $57,354 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New York 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.