Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,448
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$8,402
15.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,126
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$53,850
Kept after tax
$45,448
Worth in national money
$49,126
State rank
21
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Tennessee is 21 of 49 states for this job, with a middle wage of $53,850. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Tennessee, this sits in the middle: 246 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Tennessee does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $53,850 you keep $45,448, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $49,126 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $54,210, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Tennessee ranks 21 of 49 for community and social service specialists, all other at $53,850. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Community and social service specialists, all other ranks 246 of 491 occupations in Tennessee 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 Tennessee income tax, retained pay for community and social service specialists, all other on $53,850 is $45,448. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $49,126 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 $54,210 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,080 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $53,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $68,010 |
| This salary | $53,850 |
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 Tennessee | $45,448 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $45,448 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,356 |
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 | $53,850 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,849 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $53,850 as a midpoint for Tennessee, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $42,080 and the ninetieth is $68,010 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $45,448 take-home in Tennessee comes from $53,850. 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 246 of 491.
- Two cautions on $49,126, the adjusted value of that $53,850 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Tennessee. 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 246 of 491 locally.
- The Tennessee median of $53,850 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $42,080 to $68,010. 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 $45,448, from $53,850, assumes a single Tennessee 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 246 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 21 of 49 for it.
- This $49,126 adjusted figure, worked from $53,850, 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 246 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 246 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $42,080 at the tenth percentile, $68,010 at the ninetieth.
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 $49,126.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $45,448 of this wage reaches your account, because Tennessee takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($42,080 to $68,010) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Tennessee rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Tennessee'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 $49,126 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $45,448 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.