Crossing Guards and Flaggers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$28,977
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$4,373
13.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$29,819
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$33,350
Kept after tax
$28,977
Worth in national money
$29,819
State rank
39
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Texas pays crossing guards and flaggers a middle wage of $33,350, 39 of 49 states and about 12.47% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Texas this is lower-paid work. Of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, crossing guards and flaggers ranks 455. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $33,350 the take-home is $28,977, which is worth about $29,819 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $34,050, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas's $33,350 median for crossing guards and flaggers places it 39 of 49 states, about 12.47% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation Texas reports, crossing guards and flaggers ranks 455 of 493, 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.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for crossing guards and flaggers on its $33,350 median: $28,977 retained after tax becomes $29,819 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $34,050 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Crossing Guards and Flaggers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $25,330 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $33,350 |
| Top tenth earn over | $42,760 |
| This salary | $33,350 |
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 Texas | $28,977 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $28,977 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,809 |
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 | $33,350 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,329 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
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 Texas earn under $33,350 and half over. The published range runs $25,330 at the tenth percentile to $42,760 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $28,977 take-home in Texas comes from $33,350. 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 455 of 493.
- Two cautions on $29,819, the adjusted value of that $33,350 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 455 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for crossing guards and flaggers in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $25,330 to $42,760; 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 $28,977, from $33,350, assumes a single Texas 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 455 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 39 of 49 for it.
- This $29,819 adjusted figure, worked from $33,350, 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 455 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 455 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $25,330 at the bottom tenth to $42,760 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $29,819.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $28,977 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. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($25,330 to $42,760) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Texas'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 $29,819 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?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $28,977 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.