Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other in Michigan
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,496
after federal, FICA and Michigan tax
Tax takes
$9,524
19.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,997
Michigan costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Michigan — 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
$50,020
Kept after tax
$40,496
Worth in national money
$42,997
State rank
33
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Michigan pays this job a middle wage of $50,020, 33 of 49 states and about 11.83% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Michigan, this sits in the middle: 299 of 493 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 $50,020 you keep $40,496 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $42,997 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $53,440, since top earners drag the number up.
- Michigan's $50,020 median for community and social service specialists, all other places it 33 of 49 states, about 11.83% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Community and social service specialists, all other ranks 299 of 493 occupations in Michigan 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 Michigan is $40,496 after the full tax stack, from $50,020. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $42,997 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $53,440 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,940 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $76,310 |
| This salary | $50,020 |
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 Michigan | $40,496 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,371 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$606 |
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 | $47,686 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$733 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 94 |
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 community and social service specialists, all other in Michigan earn under $50,020 and half over. The published range runs $36,940 at the tenth percentile to $76,310 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 Michigan's $40,496, worked from $50,020. 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 299 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Michigan, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $42,997, the adjusted value of that $50,020 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 299 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for community and social service specialists, all other in Michigan, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,940 to $76,310; 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 Michigan take-home of $40,496, on $50,020 for work ranking 299 of 493 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 299 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Michigan, so $42,997 — the adjusted value of that $50,020 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 299 of 493 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 $53,440, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $36,940, the highest tenth $76,310, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Michigan sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $42,997 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 Michigan adds its own income tax on top — which is why $40,496 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 Michigan is $53,440. 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 ($36,940) and the ninetieth ($76,310) 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?
Michigan'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 $42,997 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 $40,496 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Michigan 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.