Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,053
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$10,017
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,265
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$62,070
Kept after tax
$52,053
Worth in national money
$56,265
State rank
25
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Tennessee is 25 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $62,070. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Tennessee, this sits in the middle: 179 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Tennessee does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $62,070 you keep $52,053, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $56,265 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $62,930, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Tennessee ranks 25 of 51 for clinical laboratory technologists and technicians at $62,070. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians ranks 179 of 491 occupations in Tennessee 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.
- After federal, FICA and Tennessee income tax, retained pay for clinical laboratory technologists and technicians on $62,070 is $52,053. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $56,265 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $62,930 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,800 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,070 |
| Top tenth earn over | $87,210 |
| This salary | $62,070 |
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 Tennessee | $52,053 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,053 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,698 |
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 | $62,070 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,263 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
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 clinical laboratory technologists and technicians in Tennessee earn under $62,070 and half over. The published range runs $37,800 at the tenth percentile to $87,210 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Tennessee's $52,053, worked from $62,070. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 179 of 491.
- Two cautions on $56,265, the adjusted value of that $62,070 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Tennessee. 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 179 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for clinical laboratory technologists and technicians in Tennessee, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,800 to $87,210; 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.
- The Tennessee take-home of $52,053, on $62,070 for work ranking 179 of 491 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 179 of 491 in the state.
- This $56,265 adjusted figure, worked from $62,070, 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 179 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 179 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $37,800, the highest tenth $87,210, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $56,265.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $52,053 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 ($37,800) and the ninetieth ($87,210) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Tennessee's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $56,265 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $52,053 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.
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.