Compliance Officers in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,098
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$20,492
24.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,176
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
$82,590
Kept after tax
$62,098
Worth in national money
$57,176
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Hawaii is one of the better-paying states for compliance officers. The middle earner takes $82,590, which ranks 17 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 2.3% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Hawaii, this sits in the middle: 121 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 $82,590 the take-home is $62,098; in national-average money that behaves like $57,176. The average comes to $84,920, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Hawaii ranks 17 of 51 states publishing a median for compliance officers, at $82,590 — about 2.3% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Compliance officers ranks 121 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 compliance officers in Hawaii, on $82,590, is $62,098; deflated by the state's price level, $57,176. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $84,920 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Compliance Officers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $53,270 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $82,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $117,350 |
| This salary | $82,590 |
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 | $62,098 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $66,932 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$11,702 |
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 | $75,719 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$16,155 |
| 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 compliance officers in Hawaii earn under $82,590 and half over. The published range runs $53,270 at the tenth percentile to $117,350 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $62,098 take-home in Hawaii comes from $82,590. 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 121 of 437.
- One number stands for prices across all of Hawaii, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $57,176, the adjusted value of that $82,590 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 121 of 437 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for compliance officers in Hawaii, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $53,270 to $117,350; 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 $62,098, from $82,590, 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 121 of 437 locally, and the state ranks 17 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Hawaii, so $57,176 — the adjusted value of that $82,590 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 121 of 437 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $53,270, the highest tenth $117,350, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $57,176 of national purchasing power.
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 Hawaii adds its own income tax on top — which is why $62,098 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($53,270) and the ninetieth ($117,350) 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 $57,176 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 $62,098 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.
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.