Communications Teachers, Postsecondary in Ohio
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,045
after federal, FICA and Ohio tax
Tax takes
$15,615
20.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$67,578
Ohio costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Ohio — 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
$77,660
Kept after tax
$62,045
Worth in national money
$67,578
State rank
26
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Ohio sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $77,660, ranking 26 of 48 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Ohio, this sits in the middle: 128 of 494 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $77,660 you keep $62,045 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $67,578 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $74,530.
- Ohio occupies the middle band for communications teachers, postsecondary: a median of $77,660, ranking 26 of 48. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Communications teachers, postsecondary ranks 128 of 494 occupations in Ohio 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.
- Retained pay in Ohio is $62,045 after the full tax stack, from $77,660. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $67,578 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $74,530 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Communications Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,240 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,660 |
| Top tenth earn over | $105,780 |
| This salary | $77,660 |
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 Ohio | $62,045 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,464 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,269 |
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 | $75,643 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,134 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $77,660 as a midpoint for Ohio, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $40,240 and the ninetieth is $105,780 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $62,045 take-home in Ohio comes from $77,660. 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 128 of 494.
- Two cautions on $67,578, the adjusted value of that $77,660 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Ohio. 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 128 of 494 locally.
- The Ohio median of $77,660 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $40,240 to $105,780. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $62,045, from $77,660, assumes a single Ohio 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 128 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 26 of 48 for it.
- This $67,578 adjusted figure, worked from $77,660, 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 128 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 128 of 494 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 $74,530 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $40,240, the highest tenth $105,780, 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 $67,578.
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 Ohio adds its own income tax on top — which is why $62,045 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Ohio is $74,530. 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 ($40,240) and the ninetieth ($105,780) 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?
Ohio'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 $67,578 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 $62,045 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Ohio 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.