Crossing Guards and Flaggers in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,960
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$6,600
17.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$30,730
Virginia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Virginia — 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
$37,560
Kept after tax
$30,960
Worth in national money
$30,730
State rank
22
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Virginia pays crossing guards and flaggers around $37,560 at the midpoint, 22 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 489 occupations Virginia publishes, crossing guards and flaggers lands at 437. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $37,560, tax leaves $30,960, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $30,730 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $38,570, since top earners drag the number up.
- For crossing guards and flaggers the Virginia median is $37,560, ranking 22 of 49 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.
- Within Virginia, this work ranks 437 of 489 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.
- Because Virginia sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for crossing guards and flaggers — median $37,560 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $30,960 retained, $30,730 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $38,570 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Crossing Guards and Flaggers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,160 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,560 |
| Top tenth earn over | $47,060 |
| This salary | $37,560 |
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 Virginia | $30,960 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,359 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,570 |
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 | $35,819 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,108 |
| 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 crossing guards and flaggers in Virginia earn under $37,560 and half over. The published range runs $30,160 at the tenth percentile to $47,060 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $30,960 take-home in Virginia comes from $37,560. 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 437 of 489.
- One number stands for prices across all of Virginia, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $30,730, the adjusted value of that $37,560 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 437 of 489 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for crossing guards and flaggers in Virginia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $30,160 to $47,060; 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 $30,960, from $37,560, assumes a single Virginia 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 437 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 22 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Virginia, so $30,730 — the adjusted value of that $37,560 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 437 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $30,160 at the bottom tenth to $47,060 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $30,730 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 Virginia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $30,960 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($30,160 to $47,060) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Virginia rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Virginia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $30,730 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 $30,960 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Virginia 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.