Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,452
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$13,348
17.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,238
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
$74,800
Kept after tax
$61,452
Worth in national money
$63,238
State rank
25
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Texas pays this job around $74,800 at the midpoint, 25 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 144 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 $74,800, tax leaves $61,452, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $63,238 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $81,100, since top earners drag the number up.
- For compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists the Texas median is $74,800, ranking 25 of 50 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists ranks 144 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 compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists — median $74,800 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $61,452 retained, $63,238 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $81,100 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 | $49,570 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,800 |
| Top tenth earn over | $121,790 |
| This salary | $74,800 |
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 | $61,452 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $61,452 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,837 |
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 | $74,800 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,642 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $74,800 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,570 and the ninetieth is $121,790 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $61,452 take-home in Texas comes from $74,800. 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 144 of 493.
- Two cautions on $63,238, the adjusted value of that $74,800 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 144 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $74,800 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,570 to $121,790. 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 $61,452, from $74,800, assumes a single Texas 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 144 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 25 of 50 for it.
- This $63,238 adjusted figure, worked from $74,800, 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 144 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 144 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $81,100, 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 $49,570, the highest tenth $121,790, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $63,238.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $61,452 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 Texas is $81,100. 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 ($49,570) and the ninetieth ($121,790) 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 $63,238 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 $61,452 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.