Crossing Guards and Flaggers in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,707
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$8,073
18.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,956
Hawaii costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Hawaii — 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
$42,780
Kept after tax
$34,707
Worth in national money
$31,956
State rank
12
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Hawaii pays crossing guards and flaggers a middle wage of $42,780, ranking 12 of 49 states and sitting about 12.28% above the national middle.
- Within Hawaii this is lower-paid work. Of 437 occupations the state publishes figures for, crossing guards and flaggers ranks 388. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Hawaii is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $42,780 the take-home is $34,707; in national-average money that behaves like $31,956. The average comes to $45,200, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Hawaii's median for crossing guards and flaggers is $42,780, about 12.28% above the national figure and 12 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Against every occupation Hawaii reports, crossing guards and flaggers ranks 388 of 437, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Take-home for crossing guards and flaggers in Hawaii, on $42,780, is $34,707; deflated by the state's price level, $31,956. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $45,200 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Crossing Guards and Flaggers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,780 |
| Top tenth earn over | $54,690 |
| This salary | $42,780 |
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 Hawaii | $34,707 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,554 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,660 |
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 | $40,482 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,846 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
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 crossing guards and flaggers in Hawaii earn under $42,780 and half over. The published range runs $35,360 at the tenth percentile to $54,690 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $34,707 take-home in Hawaii comes from $42,780. 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 388 of 437.
- One number stands for prices across all of Hawaii, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $31,956, the adjusted value of that $42,780 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 388 of 437 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for crossing guards and flaggers in Hawaii, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,360 to $54,690; 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.
- Retained pay of $34,707, from $42,780, assumes a single Hawaii 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 388 of 437 locally, and the state ranks 12 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Hawaii, so $31,956 — the adjusted value of that $42,780 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 388 of 437 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 $45,200 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $35,360 at the tenth percentile, $54,690 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $31,956 of national purchasing power.
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 Hawaii adds its own income tax on top — which is why $34,707 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 Hawaii is $45,200. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($35,360 to $54,690) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Hawaii rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Hawaii's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $31,956 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 $34,707 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Hawaii 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.
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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.