Construction Managers in Arizona
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$87,043
after federal, FICA and Arizona tax
Tax takes
$27,637
24.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$86,092
Arizona costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arizona — 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
$114,680
Kept after tax
$87,043
Worth in national money
$86,092
State rank
20
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Arizona pays construction managers around $114,680 at the midpoint, 20 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 491 occupations Arizona reports, construction managers comes in at 35 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $114,680, tax leaves $87,043, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $86,092 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $120,460, since top earners drag the number up.
- For construction managers the Arizona median is $114,680, ranking 20 of 51 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.
- Construction managers ranks 35 of 491 occupations by median in Arizona, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Because Arizona sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for construction managers — median $114,680 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $87,043 retained, $86,092 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $120,460 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Construction Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $77,990 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $114,680 |
| Top tenth earn over | $168,560 |
| This salary | $114,680 |
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 Arizona | $87,043 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $89,507 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,018 |
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 | $111,177 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,313 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
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 construction managers in Arizona earn under $114,680 and half over. The published range runs $77,990 at the tenth percentile to $168,560 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Arizona the take-home figure of $87,043, from $114,680, 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 35 of 491 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $86,092, the adjusted value of that $114,680 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Arizona. 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 35 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for construction managers in Arizona, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $77,990 to $168,560; 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 Arizona is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $87,043 from $114,680. 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 35 of 491 locally.
- This $86,092 adjusted figure, worked from $114,680, 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 35 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 35 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $120,460, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $77,990 at the bottom tenth to $168,560 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Arizona run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $86,092 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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 Arizona adds its own income tax on top — which is why $87,043 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.
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 Arizona is $120,460. 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 ($77,990) and the ninetieth ($168,560) 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?
Arizona's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $86,092 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 $87,043 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arizona 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.