Dietitians and Nutritionists in California
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$73,270
after federal, FICA and California tax
Tax takes
$25,580
25.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$65,082
California costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in California — 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
$98,850
Kept after tax
$73,270
Worth in national money
$65,082
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for dietitians and nutritionists is strong here. California's middle earner gets $98,850, putting the state 1 of 51 — about 29.38% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in California, this sits in the middle: 133 of 492 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- California is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $98,850 the take-home is $73,270; in national-average money that behaves like $65,082. The average lands at $98,780, below the middle of the range.
- For dietitians and nutritionists, California sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $98,850, ranking 1 of 51 and running about 29.38% 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.
- Dietitians and nutritionists ranks 133 of 492 occupations in California by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Take-home for dietitians and nutritionists in California, on $98,850, is $73,270; deflated by the state's price level, $65,082. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $98,780 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Dietitians and Nutritionists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $72,780 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $98,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $130,850 |
| This salary | $98,850 |
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 California | $73,270 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $78,371 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$15,567 |
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 | $91,599 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$21,503 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 113 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $98,850 as a midpoint for California, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $72,780 and the ninetieth is $130,850 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $73,270 take-home in California comes from $98,850. 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 133 of 492.
- Two cautions on $65,082, the adjusted value of that $98,850 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of California. 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 133 of 492 locally.
- The California median of $98,850 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $72,780 to $130,850. 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 $73,270, from $98,850, assumes a single California 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 133 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 1 of 51 for it.
- This $65,082 adjusted figure, worked from $98,850, 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 133 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 133 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $72,780 at the tenth percentile, $130,850 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. California costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $65,082 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 California's own levy, $73,270 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($72,780 to $130,850) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to California rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
California's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $65,082 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 $73,270 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and California 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.