Data Entry Keyers in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,330
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$7,150
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,149
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$47,480
Kept after tax
$40,330
Worth in national money
$37,149
State rank
7
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Washington pays data entry keyers a middle wage of $47,480, ranking 7 of 49 states and sitting about 14.85% above the national middle.
- Measured against other jobs in Washington, this one sits low: 421 of 493 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $47,480, tax leaves $40,330 — and because Washington is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $37,149 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $50,230, since top earners drag the number up.
- Washington's median for data entry keyers is $47,480, about 14.85% above the national figure and 7 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.
- Data entry keyers occupies position 421 of 493 in Washington's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- After tax, $40,330 remains from the Washington median of $47,480 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $37,149 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $50,230 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Data Entry Keyers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,070 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,480 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,790 |
| This salary | $47,480 |
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 Washington | $40,330 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,330 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,353 |
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 | $47,480 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,265 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $47,480 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,070 and the ninetieth is $63,790 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $40,330 take-home in Washington comes from $47,480. 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 421 of 493.
- Two cautions on $37,149, the adjusted value of that $47,480 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. 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 421 of 493 locally.
- The Washington median of $47,480 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,070 to $63,790. 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 $40,330, from $47,480, assumes a single Washington 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 421 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 7 of 49 for it.
- This $37,149 adjusted figure, worked from $47,480, 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 421 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 421 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $50,230, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $38,070 at the bottom tenth to $63,790 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Washington costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $37,149 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $40,330 survives, because Washington levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 Washington is $50,230. 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 ($38,070 to $63,790) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Washington rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $37,149 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $40,330 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.