Editors in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,101
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$6,849
14.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,238
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$45,950
Kept after tax
$39,101
Worth in national money
$40,238
State rank
50
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Texas pays editors a middle wage of $45,950, 50 of 50 states and about 41.03% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 331 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $45,950, take-home of $39,101 is worth roughly $40,238 in national money. The average comes to $57,300, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Texas's $45,950 median for editors places it 50 of 50 states, about 41.03% 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.
- Editors ranks 331 of 493 occupations in Texas 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.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for editors, whose median is $45,950, the adjusted figure of $40,238 differs little from $39,101 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $57,300 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 | $29,040 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,950 |
| Top tenth earn over | $105,440 |
| This salary | $45,950 |
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 Texas | $39,101 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $39,101 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,441 |
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 | $45,950 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,143 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $45,950. The published range is $29,040 up to $105,440, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $39,101 take-home in Texas comes from $45,950. 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 331 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $40,238, the adjusted value of that $45,950 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 331 of 493 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for editors in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $29,040 to $105,440. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $39,101, from $45,950, assumes a single Texas 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 331 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 50 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $40,238 — the adjusted value of that $45,950 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 331 of 493 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 $57,300 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $29,040, the highest tenth $105,440, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $40,238.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $39,101 survives, because Texas 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. 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 Texas is $57,300. 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 ($29,040) and the ninetieth ($105,440) 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?
Texas'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 $40,238 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $39,101 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.