Data Entry Keyers in Vermont
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$35,762
after federal, FICA and Vermont tax
Tax takes
$7,518
17.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,007
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
$43,280
Kept after tax
$35,762
Worth in national money
$37,007
State rank
17
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Vermont is 17 of 49 states for data entry keyers, with a middle wage of $43,280. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Vermont this is lower-paid work. Of 453 occupations the state publishes figures for, data entry keyers ranks 401. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Vermont is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $43,280 the take-home is $35,762; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $37,007 would nationally. The average comes to $44,860, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Vermont ranks 17 of 49 for data entry keyers at $43,280. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation Vermont reports, data entry keyers ranks 401 of 453, 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.
- Post-tax income for data entry keyers in Vermont, on $43,280, is $35,762 — equivalent to $37,007 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 $44,860 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Data Entry Keyers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,070 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $43,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $54,040 |
| This salary | $43,280 |
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 | $35,762 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,955 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,023 |
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 | $41,794 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,237 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $43,280 as a midpoint for Vermont, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $39,070 and the ninetieth is $54,040 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $35,762 take-home in Vermont comes from $43,280. 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 401 of 453.
- Two cautions on $37,007, the adjusted value of that $43,280 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 401 of 453 locally.
- The Vermont median of $43,280 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $39,070 to $54,040. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $35,762, from $43,280, assumes a single Vermont 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 401 of 453 locally, and the state ranks 17 of 49 for it.
- This $37,007 adjusted figure, worked from $43,280, 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 401 of 453 in the state. The occupation ranks 401 of 453 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 $44,860 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $39,070 and the top tenth $54,040, so most people doing this work in Vermont sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $37,007.
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 $35,762 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 Vermont is $44,860. 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 ($39,070 to $54,040) 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 $37,007 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 $35,762 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.