Dietetic Technicians in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,780
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$6,620
16.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,324
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$39,400
Kept after tax
$32,780
Worth in national money
$32,324
State rank
20
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Rhode Island pays dietetic technicians around $39,400 at the midpoint, 20 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 452 occupations Rhode Island publishes, dietetic technicians lands at 392. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $39,400, tax leaves $32,780, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $32,324 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $41,330, since top earners drag the number up.
- For dietetic technicians the Rhode Island median is $39,400, ranking 20 of 45 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 Rhode Island, this work ranks 392 of 452 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 Rhode Island sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for dietetic technicians — median $39,400 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $32,780 retained, $32,324 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $41,330 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Dietetic Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,930 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $48,670 |
| This salary | $39,400 |
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 Rhode Island | $32,780 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,838 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,498 |
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 | $38,084 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,021 |
| 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 dietetic technicians in Rhode Island earn under $39,400 and half over. The published range runs $35,930 at the tenth percentile to $48,670 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $32,780 take-home in Rhode Island comes from $39,400. 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 392 of 452.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $32,324 uses one figure for the whole of Rhode Island. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 452 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 392.
- Figures are distribution medians for dietetic technicians in Rhode Island, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,930 to $48,670; 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 $32,780, from $39,400, assumes a single Rhode Island 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 392 of 452 locally, and the state ranks 20 of 45 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $32,324, worked from $39,400, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Rhode Island address, on work sitting at 392 of 452 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 $41,330 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $35,930 at the tenth percentile, $48,670 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Rhode Island costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $32,324 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Rhode Island's own levy, $32,780 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 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 Rhode Island is $41,330. 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 ($35,930 to $48,670) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Rhode Island rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $32,324 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 $32,780 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.