Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,017
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$13,673
20.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,827
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$66,690
Kept after tax
$53,017
Worth in national money
$54,827
State rank
37
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Georgia pays this job a middle wage of $66,690, 37 of 50 states and about 14.73% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 174 among 492 occupations Georgia publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $66,690 you keep $53,017 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $54,827 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $76,500, since top earners drag the number up.
- Georgia's $66,690 median for compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists places it 37 of 50 states, about 14.73% 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.
- Position 174 of 492 in Georgia places compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay in Georgia is $53,017 after the full tax stack, from $66,690. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $54,827 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $76,500 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,030 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $66,690 |
| Top tenth earn over | $122,130 |
| This salary | $66,690 |
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 Georgia | $53,017 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $55,746 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,540 |
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 | $63,270 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,095 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $66,690 as a midpoint for Georgia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $42,030 and the ninetieth is $122,130 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $53,017 take-home in Georgia comes from $66,690. 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 174 of 492.
- One number stands for prices across all of Georgia, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $54,827, the adjusted value of that $66,690 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 174 of 492 in the state.
- The Georgia median of $66,690 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $42,030 to $122,130. 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 $53,017, from $66,690, assumes a single Georgia 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 174 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 37 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Georgia, so $54,827 — the adjusted value of that $66,690 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 174 of 492 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 $76,500 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $42,030 and the top tenth $122,130 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Georgia is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $54,827 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Georgia then takes its own share, leaving $53,017.
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 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Georgia is $76,500. 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 ($42,030) and the ninetieth ($122,130) 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?
Georgia'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 $54,827 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 $53,017 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.