Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,670
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$21,970
26.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,980
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$81,640
Kept after tax
$59,670
Worth in national money
$56,980
State rank
12
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Oregon pays this job a middle wage of $81,640, ranking 12 of 51 states and sitting about 4.67% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 149 among 489 occupations Oregon publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $81,640, tax leaves $59,670 — and because Oregon is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $56,980 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $84,720, since top earners drag the number up.
- Oregon's median for claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators is $81,640, about 4.67% above the national figure and 12 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 149 of 489 in Oregon places claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $59,670 remains from the Oregon median of $81,640 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $56,980 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $84,720 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,320 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $81,640 |
| Top tenth earn over | $117,380 |
| This salary | $81,640 |
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 Oregon | $59,670 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $66,264 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$11,210 |
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 | $72,268 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$15,441 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Oregon earn less than $81,640. The published range is $56,320 up to $117,380, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $59,670 take-home in Oregon comes from $81,640. 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 149 of 489.
- One number stands for prices across all of Oregon, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $56,980, the adjusted value of that $81,640 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 149 of 489 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators in Oregon the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $56,320 to $117,380. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $59,670, from $81,640, assumes a single Oregon 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 149 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 12 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Oregon, so $56,980 — the adjusted value of that $81,640 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 149 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $84,720, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $56,320 and the top tenth $117,380 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Oregon run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $56,980 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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 Oregon adds its own income tax on top — which is why $59,670 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.
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 Oregon is $84,720. 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 ($56,320) and the ninetieth ($117,380) 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?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $56,980 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 $59,670 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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.