Compliance Officers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,853
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$13,517
17.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,651
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
$75,370
Kept after tax
$61,853
Worth in national money
$63,651
State rank
32
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Texas is 32 of 51 states for compliance officers, with a middle wage of $75,370. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 142 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $75,370 the take-home is $61,853, which is worth about $63,651 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $81,400, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas ranks 32 of 51 for compliance officers at $75,370. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Compliance officers ranks 142 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.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for compliance officers on its $75,370 median: $61,853 retained after tax becomes $63,651 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $81,400 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Compliance Officers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,170 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,370 |
| Top tenth earn over | $126,920 |
| This salary | $75,370 |
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 | $61,853 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $61,853 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,862 |
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 | $75,370 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,679 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
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 Texas earn under $75,370 and half over. The published range runs $45,170 at the tenth percentile to $126,920 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $61,853, from $75,370, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 142 of 493 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $63,651 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 142.
- Figures are distribution medians for compliance officers in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $45,170 to $126,920; 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.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $61,853 from $75,370. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 142 of 493 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $63,651, worked from $75,370, 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 Texas address, on work sitting at 142 of 493 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 $81,400 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $45,170, the highest tenth $126,920, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $63,651 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $61,853 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $81,400. 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 ($45,170) and the ninetieth ($126,920) 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 $63,651 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 $61,853 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.
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.