Editors in Louisiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,094
after federal, FICA and Louisiana tax
Tax takes
$10,766
18.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,439
Louisiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Louisiana — 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
$58,860
Kept after tax
$48,094
Worth in national money
$54,439
State rank
38
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Louisiana pays editors a middle wage of $58,860, 38 of 50 states and about 24.46% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Editors ranks 203 among 484 occupations Louisiana publishes pay for.
- Louisiana is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $58,860 the take-home is $48,094; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $54,439 would nationally. The average comes to $62,750, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Louisiana's $58,860 median for editors places it 38 of 50 states, about 24.46% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Position 203 of 484 in Louisiana places editors in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Post-tax income for editors in Louisiana, on $58,860, is $48,094 — equivalent to $54,439 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 $62,750 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Editors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,680 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $97,740 |
| This salary | $58,860 |
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 Louisiana | $48,094 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,474 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,527 |
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 | $57,143 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,266 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Louisiana earn less than $58,860. The published range is $36,680 up to $97,740, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Louisiana the take-home figure of $48,094, from $58,860, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 203 of 484 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $54,439, the adjusted value of that $58,860 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Louisiana. 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 203 of 484 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for editors in Louisiana the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,680 to $97,740. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Louisiana is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $48,094 from $58,860. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 203 of 484 locally.
- This $54,439 adjusted figure, worked from $58,860, 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 203 of 484 in the state. The occupation ranks 203 of 484 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 $62,750 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $36,680 and the top tenth $97,740 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $54,439.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Louisiana then takes its own share, leaving $48,094.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 Louisiana is $62,750. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($36,680) and the ninetieth ($97,740) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Louisiana'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 $54,439 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 $48,094 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Louisiana 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.