Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other
What the pay figures show
- For once the obvious answer is right. Wyoming pays this job best, at $73,270. It keeps that lead after tax. It keeps it after local prices too — $66,458 in comparable money. Most jobs are not this tidy.
- The nominal leader for community and social service specialists, all other is also the real leader: Wyoming at $73,270, holding through tax and through price deflation to $66,458. Both adjustments leave the ordering at the top intact, which indicates a wage premium large enough to dominate the state's tax burden and price level rather than merely offset them.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$56,730
People doing it
107,730
Highest paid
$73,270
WY
Best off, really
$66,458
WY, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$37,310
Highest tenth
$84,210
Lowest, really
$33,548
IL
States with data
49
National average
$59,590
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
90.85%
WY, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Nationally, this job pays within a fairly narrow band. Adjust for tax and for local prices and the band tightens again, to between $33,548 and $66,458. Geography is not the main lever on pay here.
- Roughly 107,730 people hold this job nationally, earning $56,730 in the middle. A solid, ordinary-sized job.
- This job is not published everywhere — 49 jurisdictions have a figure, with $56,730 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. Wyoming tops the ones that are.
- Wages for community and social service specialists, all other cluster comparatively tightly across states, and the clustering strengthens after tax and price deflation — a real range of $33,548 to $66,458. Occupation-level factors such as specialisation and employer type therefore explain more of an individual's pay here than location does.
- 107,730 are employed nationally in community and social service specialists, all other, placing it well inside the reported range without approaching the highest-headcount occupations.
- 49 jurisdictions carry a published median for community and social service specialists, all other. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,310 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,730 |
| Top tenth earn over | $84,210 |
| This salary | $56,730 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other
The national median for this job
$56,730around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $37,310 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $56,730 |
| Top tenth | $84,210 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other, state by state
The national median for this job
49states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Arkansas · $40,840 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Wyoming · $73,270 |
| Spread | $32,430 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $48,400 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $49,807 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| WY | $73,270 | $60,375 | $66,458 |
| ND | $63,490 | $53,194 | $60,058 |
| VA | $69,810 | $54,688 | $54,281 |
| KY | $58,150 | $46,986 | $51,936 |
| RI | $63,510 | $51,249 | $50,535 |
| WA | $64,340 | $53,877 | $49,628 |
| TN | $53,850 | $45,448 | $49,126 |
| OK | $53,640 | $43,366 | $49,120 |
| DC | $69,130 | $54,416 | $49,110 |
| NY | $66,580 | $52,671 | $48,939 |
| WI | $55,220 | $44,681 | $47,994 |
| NE | $53,170 | $43,186 | $47,785 |
| NC | $54,820 | $44,549 | $47,323 |
| AK | $56,730 | $47,763 | $46,957 |
| NJ | $61,910 | $50,052 | $45,969 |
| LA | $49,080 | $40,530 | $45,877 |
| SC | $51,880 | $42,741 | $45,871 |
| PA | $54,770 | $44,506 | $45,647 |
| NH | $56,730 | $47,763 | $45,339 |
| VT | $53,150 | $43,362 | $44,872 |
| MO | $50,180 | $41,079 | $44,766 |
| ID | $50,390 | $40,851 | $44,683 |
| NM | $48,820 | $40,275 | $44,559 |
| CO | $55,490 | $45,033 | $44,419 |
| HI | $61,000 | $48,001 | $44,196 |
| MN | $54,050 | $43,457 | $44,156 |
| IN | $49,070 | $40,190 | $43,597 |
| NV | $49,600 | $42,034 | $43,343 |
| IA | $46,460 | $38,357 | $43,211 |
| DE | $53,640 | $42,870 | $43,192 |
| MI | $50,020 | $40,496 | $42,997 |
| AZ | $52,410 | $43,384 | $42,910 |
| CA | $58,770 | $47,683 | $42,354 |
| KS | $47,650 | $38,096 | $42,346 |
| TX | $48,400 | $41,069 | $42,263 |
| MA | $57,360 | $45,721 | $42,241 |
| OH | $45,980 | $38,577 | $42,017 |
| CT | $53,840 | $43,229 | $41,691 |
| OR | $56,770 | $43,378 | $41,422 |
| MS | $44,340 | $36,126 | $41,385 |
| FL | $50,440 | $42,709 | $41,283 |
| MD | $51,000 | $41,100 | $39,532 |
| AR | $40,840 | $33,942 | $39,236 |
| UT | $46,230 | $37,269 | $39,229 |
| MT | $41,850 | $34,596 | $38,336 |
| GA | $45,220 | $36,857 | $38,115 |
| WV | $41,060 | $34,095 | $37,979 |
| ME | $44,160 | $36,002 | $37,078 |
| IL | $40,900 | $33,163 | $33,548 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of this job earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $56,730.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for this job. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, Wyoming keeps the most at $60,375.
- The price adjustment for this job uses a statewide figure, and states are not uniform. A city and a rural county in the same state can differ more from each other than two states do, so treat the real-terms comparison as a direction rather than a precise answer — Illinois anchors the bottom at $33,548. The wage data and the price data also come from different years, because that is how each is published.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for community and social service specialists, all other, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $56,730, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- The household modeled for community and social service specialists, all other is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis Wyoming retains the most, $60,375. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- Real-terms figures for community and social service specialists, all other deflate take-home by a statewide regional price parity, which conceals substantial intra-state variation — metropolitan and non-metropolitan price levels within one state frequently differ by more than two states differ from each other. The wage and price series also carry different reference periods, as each is published on its own schedule, so the adjustment is directionally sound rather than precisely dated.