Civil Engineers in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$69,434
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$24,846
26.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,930
Hawaii costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Hawaii — 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
$94,280
Kept after tax
$69,434
Worth in national money
$63,930
State rank
43
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for civil engineers is on the low side in Hawaii. The middle earner gets $94,280. That is 43 of 51 states, and about 6.51% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Hawaii. It ranks 96 out of 437 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Hawaii is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $94,280 the take-home is $69,434; in national-average money that behaves like $63,930. The average comes to $96,270, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For civil engineers, Hawaii sits in the lower band at $94,280, ranking 43 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 6.51%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Hawaii, civil engineers ranks 96 of 437 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Take-home for civil engineers in Hawaii, on $94,280, is $69,434; deflated by the state's price level, $63,930. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $96,270 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Civil Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $62,900 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $94,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $131,810 |
| This salary | $94,280 |
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 Hawaii | $69,434 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $75,156 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$13,411 |
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 | $86,146 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$18,524 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $94,280 as a midpoint for Hawaii, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $62,900 and the ninetieth is $131,810 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Hawaii the take-home figure of $69,434, from $94,280, 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 96 of 437 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $63,930, the adjusted value of that $94,280 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Hawaii. 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 96 of 437 locally.
- The Hawaii median of $94,280 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $62,900 to $131,810. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Hawaii is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $69,434 from $94,280. 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 96 of 437 locally.
- This $63,930 adjusted figure, worked from $94,280, 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 96 of 437 in the state. The occupation ranks 96 of 437 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $62,900, the highest tenth $131,810, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $63,930 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Hawaii adds its own income tax on top — which is why $69,434 of this wage survives to your account.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($62,900) and the ninetieth ($131,810) 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?
Hawaii's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $63,930 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 $69,434 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Hawaii 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.