Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$72,813
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$18,137
19.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$67,071
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$90,950
Kept after tax
$72,813
Worth in national money
$67,071
State rank
25
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Washington pays this job around $90,950 at the midpoint, 25 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Washington, this sits in the middle: 155 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $90,950, tax leaves $72,813 — and because Washington is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $67,071 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $100,450, since top earners drag the number up.
- For computer science teachers, postsecondary the Washington median is $90,950, ranking 25 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.
- Computer science teachers, postsecondary ranks 155 of 493 occupations in Washington 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.
- After tax, $72,813 remains from the Washington median of $90,950 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $67,071 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $100,450 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $57,370 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $90,950 |
| Top tenth earn over | $168,390 |
| This salary | $90,950 |
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 Washington | $72,813 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $72,813 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,859 |
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 | $90,950 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,856 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $90,950 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $57,370 and the ninetieth is $168,390 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $72,813 take-home in Washington comes from $90,950. 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 155 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Washington, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $67,071, the adjusted value of that $90,950 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 155 of 493 in the state.
- The Washington median of $90,950 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $57,370 to $168,390. 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 $72,813, from $90,950, assumes a single Washington 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 155 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 25 of 48 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Washington, so $67,071 — the adjusted value of that $90,950 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 155 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 $100,450, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $57,370 and the top tenth $168,390 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Washington costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $67,071 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $72,813 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.
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 Washington is $100,450. 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 ($57,370) and the ninetieth ($168,390) 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?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $67,071 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $72,813 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.