Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,750
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$17,580
21.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$61,876
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$80,330
Kept after tax
$62,750
Worth in national money
$61,876
State rank
14
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Rhode Island pays this job a middle wage of $80,330, ranking 14 of 50 states and sitting about 2.71% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Rhode Island, this sits in the middle: 146 of 452 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Rhode Island costs about what the country costs, so from $80,330, take-home of $62,750 is worth roughly $61,876 in national money. The average comes to $94,420, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Rhode Island's median for compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists is $80,330, about 2.71% above the national figure and 14 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists ranks 146 of 452 occupations in Rhode Island 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.
- Price parity in Rhode Island is near the national base, so for compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists, whose median is $80,330, the adjusted figure of $61,876 differs little from $62,750 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $94,420 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 | $59,440 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $80,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $172,660 |
| This salary | $80,330 |
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 Rhode Island | $62,750 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $65,342 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,366 |
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 | $76,645 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,412 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
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 Rhode Island earn under $80,330 and half over. The published range runs $59,440 at the tenth percentile to $172,660 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Rhode Island's $62,750, worked from $80,330. 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 146 of 452.
- One number stands for prices across all of Rhode Island, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $61,876, the adjusted value of that $80,330 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 146 of 452 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists in Rhode Island, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $59,440 to $172,660; 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.
- The Rhode Island take-home of $62,750, on $80,330 for work ranking 146 of 452 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 146 of 452 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Rhode Island, so $61,876 — the adjusted value of that $80,330 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 146 of 452 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $94,420, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $59,440, the highest tenth $172,660, 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 Rhode Island run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $61,876 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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 Rhode Island adds its own income tax on top — which is why $62,750 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 Rhode Island is $94,420. 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 ($59,440) and the ninetieth ($172,660) 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?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $61,876 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 $62,750 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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.