Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,653
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$14,367
21.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,558
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
$66,020
Kept after tax
$51,653
Worth in national money
$47,558
State rank
16
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Hawaii's middle earner gets $66,020, putting the state 16 of 51 — about 4.91% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Hawaii, this sits in the middle: 194 of 437 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Hawaii is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $66,020 the take-home is $51,653; in national-average money that behaves like $47,558. The average comes to $70,930, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For clinical laboratory technologists and technicians, Hawaii sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $66,020, ranking 16 of 51 and running about 4.91% 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.
- Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ranks 194 of 437 occupations in Hawaii 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 clinical laboratory technologists and technicians in Hawaii, on $66,020, is $51,653; deflated by the state's price level, $47,558. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $70,930 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
Compare this career across states
Choose your filing status and local taxes, compare pay, and keep a shortlist.Compare wage and personal-pay outcomes by state, with selected resident local taxes and saved career choices.
Pay band: Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,070 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $66,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $100,340 |
| This salary | $66,020 |
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 | $51,653 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $55,227 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,274 |
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 | $61,572 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$11,216 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Hawaii earn less than $66,020. The published range is $48,070 up to $100,340, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $51,653 take-home in Hawaii comes from $66,020. 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 194 of 437.
- Two cautions on $47,558, the adjusted value of that $66,020 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 194 of 437 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for clinical laboratory technologists and technicians in Hawaii the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $48,070 to $100,340. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $51,653, from $66,020, assumes a single Hawaii 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 194 of 437 locally, and the state ranks 16 of 51 for it.
- This $47,558 adjusted figure, worked from $66,020, 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 194 of 437 in the state. The occupation ranks 194 of 437 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $70,930, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $48,070, the highest tenth $100,340, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Hawaii run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $47,558 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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 Hawaii's own levy, $51,653 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 Hawaii is $70,930. 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 ($48,070) and the ninetieth ($100,340) 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 $47,558 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 $51,653 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.