Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians in Wisconsin
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,781
after federal, FICA and Wisconsin tax
Tax takes
$11,889
19.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,398
Wisconsin costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Wisconsin — 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
$60,670
Kept after tax
$48,781
Worth in national money
$52,398
State rank
33
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Wisconsin is 33 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $60,670. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Wisconsin, this sits in the middle: 245 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Wisconsin does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $60,670 you keep $48,781, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $52,398 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $63,560, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Wisconsin ranks 33 of 51 for clinical laboratory technologists and technicians at $60,670. 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 245 of 491 occupations in Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin income tax, retained pay for clinical laboratory technologists and technicians on $60,670 is $48,781. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $52,398 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 $63,560 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 | $46,350 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $84,980 |
| This salary | $60,670 |
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 Wisconsin | $48,781 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,928 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$11 |
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 | $57,998 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$13 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Wisconsin earn less than $60,670. The published range is $46,350 up to $84,980, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $48,781 take-home in Wisconsin comes from $60,670. 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 245 of 491.
- Two cautions on $52,398, the adjusted value of that $60,670 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Wisconsin. 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 245 of 491 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for clinical laboratory technologists and technicians in Wisconsin the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $46,350 to $84,980. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $48,781, from $60,670, assumes a single Wisconsin 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 245 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 33 of 51 for it.
- This $52,398 adjusted figure, worked from $60,670, 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 245 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 245 of 491 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 $63,560, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $46,350 at the bottom tenth to $84,980 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Wisconsin sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $52,398 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Wisconsin adds its own income tax on top — which is why $48,781 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 Wisconsin is $63,560. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($46,350 to $84,980) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Wisconsin rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Wisconsin'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 $52,398 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $48,781 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Wisconsin 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.