Communications Teachers, Postsecondary in New York
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$64,433
after federal, FICA and New York tax
Tax takes
$20,257
23.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$59,868
New York costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New York — 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
$84,690
Kept after tax
$64,433
Worth in national money
$59,868
State rank
8
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. New York pays this job a middle wage of $84,690, ranking 8 of 48 states and sitting about 7.78% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 160 among 493 occupations New York publishes pay for.
- New York is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $84,690 the take-home is $64,433; in national-average money that behaves like $59,868. The average comes to $105,490, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New York's median for communications teachers, postsecondary is $84,690, about 7.78% above the national figure and 8 of 48 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 160 of 493 in New York places communications teachers, postsecondary 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.
- Take-home for communications teachers, postsecondary in New York, on $84,690, is $64,433; deflated by the state's price level, $59,868. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $105,490 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Communications Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,920 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $84,690 |
| Top tenth earn over | $208,260 |
| This salary | $84,690 |
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 New York | $64,433 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $68,409 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$10,531 |
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 | $79,038 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$14,546 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $84,690 as a midpoint for New York, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,920 and the ninetieth is $208,260 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In New York the take-home figure of $64,433, from $84,690, 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 160 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $59,868, the adjusted value of that $84,690 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New York. 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 160 of 493 locally.
- The New York median of $84,690 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,920 to $208,260. 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 New York is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $64,433 from $84,690. 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 160 of 493 locally.
- This $59,868 adjusted figure, worked from $84,690, 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 160 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 160 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $105,490 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $49,920 and the top tenth $208,260 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New York costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $59,868 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; New York then takes its own share, leaving $64,433.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 New York is $105,490. 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 ($49,920) and the ninetieth ($208,260) 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?
New York's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $59,868 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 $64,433 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New York 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.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.