Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,069
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$7,331
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,263
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$48,400
Kept after tax
$41,069
Worth in national money
$42,263
State rank
38
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $48,400. That is 38 of 49 states, and about 14.68% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 294 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $48,400, tax leaves $41,069, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $42,263 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $50,640, since top earners drag the number up.
- For community and social service specialists, all other, Texas sits in the lower band at $48,400, ranking 38 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 14.68%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Community and social service specialists, all other ranks 294 of 493 occupations in Texas 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for community and social service specialists, all other — median $48,400 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $41,069 retained, $42,263 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $50,640 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 | $31,040 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $71,910 |
| This salary | $48,400 |
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 Texas | $41,069 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $41,069 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,564 |
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 | $48,400 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,302 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
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 Texas earn under $48,400 and half over. The published range runs $31,040 at the tenth percentile to $71,910 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $41,069, from $48,400, 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 294 of 493 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $42,263 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 294.
- Figures are distribution medians for community and social service specialists, all other in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $31,040 to $71,910; 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.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $41,069 from $48,400. 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 294 of 493 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $42,263, worked from $48,400, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Texas address, on work sitting at 294 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 $50,640 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 $31,040, the highest tenth $71,910, 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 Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $42,263 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $41,069 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 Texas is $50,640. 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 ($31,040) and the ninetieth ($71,910) 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?
Texas'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 $42,263 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?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $41,069 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.