Computer Occupations, All Other
What the pay figures show
- The pay leader for this job is the District of Columbia, at $156,590. Tax does not shift it. Prices are the twist. Adjust for what a basket costs and New Mexico comes out ahead, worth $103,153. Worth knowing before anyone packs.
- Nominal and post-tax rankings agree for computer occupations, all other: the District of Columbia leads at $156,590 on both. Applying regional price parities separates them, promoting New Mexico to $103,153 in real terms. Price level, not tax, is the operative variable for this occupation — and it is the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$116,580
People doing it
435,370
Highest paid
$156,590
DC
Best off, really
$103,153
NM, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$55,940
Highest tenth
$188,470
Lowest, really
$66,221
OR
States with data
51
National average
$122,230
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
90.39%
NM, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Pay for this job roughly doubles depending on the state. That is a lot. Some of it is prices, because dear places pay more to make up for costing more. Most of it is not. In real money the range is still $66,221 to $103,153.
- 435,370 people do this job across the country, and the middle one earns $116,580. Common work, though not one of the giants.
- No gaps here — all 51 jurisdictions publish a number for this job, which sits at $116,580 in the middle.
- Interstate variation in computer occupations, all other pay approaches twofold nominally. The standard explanation — that high-wage states are merely high-cost states — is only partly supported here: after tax and price adjustment the range remains $66,221 to $103,153, so the majority of the gap represents a real difference in what the work buys.
- National employment in computer occupations, all other is 435,370 — a substantial occupation, though an order of magnitude below the largest. Regional differentials here move real aggregate sums without dominating any single state's wage bill.
- 51 jurisdictions report computer occupations, all other, giving full coverage. The extremes quoted above are therefore the true reported maximum and minimum.
Pay band: Computer Occupations, All Other
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $55,940 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $116,580 |
| Top tenth earn over | $188,470 |
| This salary | $116,580 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Computer Occupations, All Other
The national median for this job
$116,580around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $55,940 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $116,580 |
| Top tenth | $188,470 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Computer Occupations, All Other, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Tennessee · $76,470 |
|---|---|
| Highest | District of Columbia · $156,590 |
| Spread | $80,120 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $111,530 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $114,772 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| NM | $127,090 | $93,236 | $103,153 |
| CO | $139,580 | $101,236 | $99,856 |
| MD | $144,680 | $103,392 | $99,449 |
| VA | $139,030 | $99,059 | $98,323 |
| DE | $137,470 | $97,385 | $98,118 |
| DC | $156,590 | $107,954 | $97,428 |
| SD | $105,370 | $82,958 | $94,169 |
| WA | $128,940 | $99,396 | $91,557 |
| OH | $109,780 | $83,758 | $91,227 |
| IA | $107,340 | $80,877 | $91,111 |
| TX | $111,530 | $87,291 | $89,829 |
| WV | $107,140 | $80,185 | $89,321 |
| SC | $112,260 | $82,922 | $88,994 |
| CT | $127,720 | $92,149 | $88,871 |
| AL | $106,330 | $79,210 | $88,040 |
| OK | $102,520 | $76,840 | $87,035 |
| VT | $111,530 | $82,041 | $84,898 |
| KS | $103,380 | $76,078 | $84,564 |
| CA | $134,440 | $94,745 | $84,157 |
| NC | $104,850 | $78,917 | $83,830 |
| MI | $105,680 | $78,935 | $83,810 |
| PA | $107,230 | $80,974 | $83,051 |
| MO | $101,040 | $76,100 | $82,932 |
| WY | $94,520 | $75,325 | $82,913 |
| AK | $105,960 | $83,373 | $81,967 |
| NV | $100,220 | $79,335 | $81,805 |
| ME | $107,990 | $78,722 | $81,076 |
| ID | $98,700 | $73,888 | $80,818 |
| GA | $104,610 | $77,802 | $80,458 |
| FL | $105,370 | $82,958 | $80,190 |
| AZ | $105,240 | $80,638 | $79,757 |
| NY | $116,990 | $85,164 | $79,130 |
| HI | $120,100 | $85,636 | $78,848 |
| IN | $93,540 | $71,905 | $78,002 |
| NE | $92,480 | $70,385 | $77,881 |
| AR | $86,940 | $67,234 | $77,720 |
| UT | $97,470 | $73,063 | $76,907 |
| MS | $86,940 | $66,607 | $76,303 |
| RI | $102,210 | $77,232 | $76,157 |
| KY | $89,420 | $68,725 | $75,966 |
| IL | $99,360 | $73,956 | $74,813 |
| MA | $109,590 | $80,767 | $74,620 |
| NJ | $108,310 | $80,317 | $73,764 |
| WI | $88,130 | $67,052 | $72,024 |
| ND | $78,330 | $63,667 | $71,882 |
| MT | $81,970 | $63,225 | $70,061 |
| MN | $91,750 | $68,661 | $69,765 |
| NH | $91,720 | $73,355 | $69,633 |
| LA | $77,000 | $61,076 | $69,133 |
| TN | $76,470 | $62,627 | $67,693 |
| OR | $97,350 | $69,348 | $66,221 |
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle of the range, not a starting salary and not an offer. Half of this job earn less than the figures here and half earn more, and experience, employer and city move an individual a long way from the middle. Nationally the middle earns $116,580.
- One filer, no dependants, nothing paid into a pension before tax — that is the household behind every take-home figure for this job. It is the simplest case on purpose, so the states can be compared against each other rather than against each other's family circumstances. City income taxes are not counted. On that household, the District of Columbia keeps the most at $107,954.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for this job. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits Oregon, on $66,221.
- Figures are medians of the published wage distribution for computer occupations, all other, not entry-level or offer wages. The national median is $116,580, with half of workers below it; dispersion within a state routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, driven by tenure, employer size, sector and metropolitan area. An individual's position in the distribution is not predictable from geography alone.
- The household modeled for computer occupations, all other is a single filer, standard deduction, no dependants, no pre-tax contributions. Holding the household constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful; it also means the absolute figures overstate liability for most real filers. On that basis the District of Columbia retains the most, $107,954. Municipal and school-district income taxes are not included in any state.
- Real-terms results for computer occupations, all other rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; Oregon anchors the distribution at $66,221. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.