Community Health Workers in North Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,077
after federal, FICA and North Dakota tax
Tax takes
$9,533
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,538
North Dakota costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in North Dakota — 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
$59,610
Kept after tax
$50,077
Worth in national money
$56,538
State rank
3
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. North Dakota pays community health workers a middle wage of $59,610, ranking 3 of 51 states and sitting about 14.97% above the national middle.
- Against other work in North Dakota, this sits in the middle: 243 of 460 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 $59,610 you keep $50,077 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $56,538 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $60,120, since top earners drag the number up.
- North Dakota's median for community health workers is $59,610, about 14.97% above the national figure and 3 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Community health workers ranks 243 of 460 occupations in North Dakota 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 North Dakota is $50,077 after the full tax stack, from $59,610. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $56,538 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $60,120 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Community Health Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,800 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,610 |
| Top tenth earn over | $76,210 |
| This salary | $59,610 |
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 North Dakota | $50,077 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,077 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,005 |
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 | $59,610 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$6,053 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 89 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $59,610 as a midpoint for North Dakota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $44,800 and the ninetieth is $76,210 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind North Dakota's $50,077, worked from $59,610. 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 243 of 460.
- Two cautions on $56,538, the adjusted value of that $59,610 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of North Dakota. 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 243 of 460 locally.
- The North Dakota median of $59,610 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $44,800 to $76,210. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The North Dakota take-home of $50,077, on $59,610 for work ranking 243 of 460 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 243 of 460 in the state.
- This $56,538 adjusted figure, worked from $59,610, 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 243 of 460 in the state. The occupation ranks 243 of 460 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $44,800 at the bottom tenth to $76,210 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in North Dakota sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $56,538 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 North Dakota adds its own income tax on top — which is why $50,077 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($44,800 to $76,210) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to North Dakota rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
North Dakota'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 $56,538 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 $50,077 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and North Dakota 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.