Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,249
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$13,841
21.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,266
Hawaii costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Hawaii — 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
$64,090
Kept after tax
$50,249
Worth in national money
$46,266
State rank
42
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Hawaii is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $64,090, ranking 42 of 50 states — about 18.05% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Hawaii, this sits in the middle: 207 of 437 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Hawaii is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $64,090 the take-home is $50,249; in national-average money that behaves like $46,266. The average comes to $75,530, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Hawaii ranks 42 of 50 for compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists, with a median of $64,090 — about 18.05% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists ranks 207 of 437 occupations in Hawaii 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.
- Take-home for compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists in Hawaii, on $64,090, is $50,249; deflated by the state's price level, $46,266. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $75,530 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,090 |
| Top tenth earn over | $108,660 |
| This salary | $64,090 |
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 Hawaii | $50,249 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,676 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$8,971 |
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 | $59,824 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,850 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
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 compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists in Hawaii earn under $64,090 and half over. The published range runs $48,550 at the tenth percentile to $108,660 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $50,249 take-home in Hawaii comes from $64,090. 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 207 of 437.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $46,266 uses one figure for the whole of Hawaii. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 437 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 207.
- Figures are distribution medians for compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists in Hawaii, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $48,550 to $108,660; 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.
- Retained pay of $50,249, from $64,090, assumes a single Hawaii 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 207 of 437 locally, and the state ranks 42 of 50 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $46,266, worked from $64,090, 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 Hawaii address, on work sitting at 207 of 437 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 $75,530, 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 $48,550, the highest tenth $108,660, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Hawaii run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $46,266 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Hawaii's own levy, $50,249 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Hawaii is $75,530. 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 ($48,550) and the ninetieth ($108,660) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Hawaii's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $46,266 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $50,249 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Hawaii 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.