Crossing Guards and Flaggers in Vermont
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,402
after federal, FICA and Vermont tax
Tax takes
$8,008
17.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,704
Vermont costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Vermont — 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
$45,410
Kept after tax
$37,402
Worth in national money
$38,704
State rank
9
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for crossing guards and flaggers is strong here. Vermont's middle earner gets $45,410, putting the state 9 of 49 — about 19.19% ahead of the national figure.
- Against 453 occupations Vermont publishes, crossing guards and flaggers lands at 385. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Vermont is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $45,410 the take-home is $37,402; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $38,704 would nationally. The average comes to $45,950, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For crossing guards and flaggers, Vermont sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $45,410, ranking 9 of 49 and running about 19.19% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Within Vermont, this work ranks 385 of 453 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Post-tax income for crossing guards and flaggers in Vermont, on $45,410, is $37,402 — equivalent to $38,704 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $45,950 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 | $43,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,410 |
| Top tenth earn over | $48,110 |
| This salary | $45,410 |
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 Vermont | $37,402 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,667 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,087 |
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 | $43,836 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,314 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Vermont earn less than $45,410. The published range is $43,520 up to $48,110, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Vermont's $37,402, worked from $45,410. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 385 of 453.
- Two cautions on $38,704, the adjusted value of that $45,410 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Vermont. 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 385 of 453 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for crossing guards and flaggers in Vermont the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $43,520 to $48,110. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Vermont take-home of $37,402, on $45,410 for work ranking 385 of 453 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 385 of 453 in the state.
- This $38,704 adjusted figure, worked from $45,410, 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 385 of 453 in the state. The occupation ranks 385 of 453 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $43,520 at the bottom tenth to $48,110 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Vermont sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $38,704 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Vermont adds its own income tax on top — which is why $37,402 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($43,520 to $48,110) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Vermont rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Vermont'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 $38,704 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $37,402 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Vermont 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.