Computer Network Support Specialists in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$63,450
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$14,190
18.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$68,583
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$77,640
Kept after tax
$63,450
Worth in national money
$68,583
State rank
17
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Tennessee pays this job around $77,640 at the midpoint, 17 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Within Tennessee this is well-paid work. Of 491 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 107 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Here is where Tennessee does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $77,640 you keep $63,450, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $68,583 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $79,910, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For computer network support specialists the Tennessee median is $77,640, ranking 17 of 48 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.
- Ranked against every occupation Tennessee publishes a median for, computer network support specialists sits 107 of 491 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- After federal, FICA and Tennessee income tax, retained pay for computer network support specialists on $77,640 is $63,450. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $68,583 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $79,910 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Computer Network Support Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,190 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,640 |
| Top tenth earn over | $118,380 |
| This salary | $77,640 |
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 Tennessee | $63,450 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,450 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,289 |
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 | $77,640 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,543 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
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 computer network support specialists in Tennessee earn under $77,640 and half over. The published range runs $49,190 at the tenth percentile to $118,380 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 Tennessee's $63,450, worked from $77,640. 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 107 of 491.
- Two cautions on $68,583, the adjusted value of that $77,640 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Tennessee. 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 107 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for computer network support specialists in Tennessee, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $49,190 to $118,380; 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 Tennessee take-home of $63,450, on $77,640 for work ranking 107 of 491 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 107 of 491 in the state.
- This $68,583 adjusted figure, worked from $77,640, 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 107 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 107 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $49,190 and the top tenth $118,380 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Tennessee is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $68,583 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $63,450 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($49,190) and the ninetieth ($118,380) 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?
Tennessee'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 $68,583 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?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $63,450 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.