Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$64,815
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$14,765
18.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$59,703
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$79,580
Kept after tax
$64,815
Worth in national money
$59,703
State rank
3
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Washington's middle earner gets $79,580, putting the state 3 of 50 — about 22.53% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Washington reports figures for, this is number 195.
- Washington is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $79,580 the take-home is $64,815; in national-average money that behaves like $59,703. The average comes to $80,190, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For civil engineering technologists and technicians, Washington sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $79,580, ranking 3 of 50 and running about 22.53% 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.
- In Washington's occupational distribution, civil engineering technologists and technicians sits at 195 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Take-home for civil engineering technologists and technicians in Washington, on $79,580, is $64,815; deflated by the state's price level, $59,703. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $80,190 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $54,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,580 |
| Top tenth earn over | $102,970 |
| This salary | $79,580 |
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 Washington | $64,815 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,815 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,996 |
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 | $79,580 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,664 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $79,580 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $54,000 and the ninetieth is $102,970 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $64,815 take-home in Washington comes from $79,580. 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 195 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Washington, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $59,703, the adjusted value of that $79,580 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 195 of 493 in the state.
- The Washington median of $79,580 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $54,000 to $102,970. 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 $64,815, from $79,580, assumes a single Washington 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 195 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 3 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Washington, so $59,703 — the adjusted value of that $79,580 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 195 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $54,000 at the tenth percentile, $102,970 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 $59,703 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $64,815 of this wage reaches your account, because Washington takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($54,000 to $102,970) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Washington rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $59,703 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $64,815 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.