Education Administrators, All Other
What the pay figures show
- The District of Columbia pays this job the most, $140,670. It still pays the most after tax. What it does not do is stay ahead once you count what living there costs. Level that out and Tennessee wins, at $99,525. Same work. A wage that goes further.
- For education administrators, all other, the District of Columbia leads both nominally at $140,670 and after tax — state income tax differentials are not large enough here to disturb the ordering. Regional price parity is: deflating take-home by each state's price level puts Tennessee first at $99,525. The adjustment that matters for this occupation is therefore cost of living rather than tax, which is the opposite of the assumption most relocation comparisons start from.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$95,200
People doing it
55,130
Highest paid
$140,670
DC
Best off, really
$99,525
TN, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$51,910
Highest tenth
$161,010
Lowest, really
$52,866
HI
States with data
49
National average
$101,900
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
92.52%
TN, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Pay for this job roughly doubles depending on the state. That is a lot. Some of it is prices, because dear places pay more to make up for costing more. Most of it is not. In real money the range is still $52,866 to $99,525.
- This is a small job: about 55,130 people nationally. Fewer workers means each state figure is built on less data.
- Some states are missing here. There are figures for 49 jurisdictions, averaging $95,200 in the middle. A blank means nobody published a number, not that the job pays nothing there. The District of Columbia leads the published set.
- Interstate variation in education administrators, all other pay approaches twofold nominally. The standard explanation — that high-wage states are merely high-cost states — is only partly supported here: after tax and price adjustment the range remains $52,866 to $99,525, so the majority of the gap represents a real difference in what the work buys.
- With 55,130 workers, education administrators, all other is among the smaller occupations BLS publishes. Treat single-state figures as indicative rather than precise; suppression and sampling error both bite harder at this scale.
- Coverage for education administrators, all other runs to 49 jurisdictions, short of the full set. The omitted states are suppressed at source; treat the spread above as the range across reported states rather than across the country.
Pay band: Education Administrators, All Other
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $51,910 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $95,200 |
| Top tenth earn over | $161,010 |
| This salary | $95,200 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Education Administrators, All Other
The national median for this job
$95,200around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $51,910 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $95,200 |
| Top tenth | $161,010 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Education Administrators, All Other, state by state
The national median for this job
49states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Montana · $68,580 |
|---|---|
| Highest | District of Columbia · $140,670 |
| Spread | $72,090 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $79,060 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $81,358 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| TN | $118,330 | $92,075 | $99,525 |
| SD | $108,990 | $85,504 | $97,059 |
| KS | $117,810 | $85,424 | $94,953 |
| OK | $112,170 | $83,194 | $94,233 |
| NM | $113,110 | $84,191 | $93,146 |
| ND | $101,870 | $79,768 | $90,060 |
| DC | $140,670 | $98,425 | $88,828 |
| MD | $125,500 | $91,280 | $87,799 |
| AZ | $117,170 | $88,732 | $87,763 |
| KY | $102,610 | $77,542 | $85,712 |
| WY | $95,420 | $75,958 | $83,610 |
| WV | $98,450 | $74,470 | $82,954 |
| IA | $92,970 | $71,313 | $80,338 |
| NC | $98,880 | $74,955 | $79,622 |
| AL | $94,610 | $71,422 | $79,384 |
| VA | $108,820 | $79,888 | $79,294 |
| AK | $101,970 | $80,566 | $79,207 |
| CO | $107,120 | $80,184 | $79,091 |
| SC | $97,240 | $73,138 | $78,494 |
| DE | $102,430 | $75,360 | $75,927 |
| GA | $96,510 | $72,508 | $74,983 |
| PA | $95,190 | $72,874 | $74,742 |
| MS | $83,890 | $64,583 | $73,985 |
| LA | $83,050 | $65,150 | $73,745 |
| WI | $88,470 | $67,271 | $72,259 |
| RI | $93,980 | $71,833 | $70,833 |
| AR | $76,990 | $60,602 | $70,054 |
| MO | $82,030 | $63,620 | $69,332 |
| WA | $93,590 | $74,671 | $68,781 |
| OH | $77,640 | $62,031 | $67,563 |
| MN | $88,330 | $66,487 | $67,557 |
| NE | $78,210 | $60,996 | $67,491 |
| VT | $85,100 | $65,192 | $67,462 |
| NY | $96,250 | $71,903 | $66,809 |
| IN | $77,680 | $61,216 | $66,406 |
| TX | $79,060 | $64,449 | $66,322 |
| MI | $80,190 | $62,086 | $65,920 |
| FL | $84,220 | $68,079 | $65,807 |
| ME | $84,440 | $63,838 | $65,747 |
| OR | $96,330 | $68,719 | $65,621 |
| CA | $99,650 | $73,758 | $65,516 |
| UT | $78,840 | $60,786 | $63,983 |
| ID | $71,690 | $56,318 | $61,600 |
| MA | $86,540 | $65,704 | $60,703 |
| MT | $68,580 | $54,562 | $60,461 |
| IL | $77,180 | $59,451 | $60,139 |
| NH | $75,700 | $62,085 | $58,935 |
| NJ | $79,980 | $62,191 | $57,117 |
| HI | $75,130 | $57,417 | $52,866 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for this job as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $95,200, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- The take-home numbers here use the simplest possible household: one filer for this job, no children, no pension contributions, standard deduction. Real life usually reduces the tax bill below this. City and school-district income taxes are left out, and in Ohio or Pennsylvania that is a real omission. The best after-tax state here is the District of Columbia, at $98,425.
- One price figure per state stands behind the real-terms numbers for this job. Inside any state, a big city costs far more than a small town, so this is a fair way to compare states with each other and a poor way to price a specific move. The wage figures and the price figures are also from different years. At the bottom of the range sits Hawaii, on $52,866.
- These are distribution medians for education administrators, all other, with a national value of $95,200. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- Retained-pay figures for education administrators, all other model a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax deferrals — deliberately the simplest household, so the comparison across states isolates geography rather than personal circumstances. Local income taxes are outside the model; Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland residents should expect a meaningfully lower figure than $98,425, which leads in the District of Columbia.
- Real-terms results for education administrators, all other rest on statewide regional price parities, which average over intra-state variation that is itself larger than much of the interstate variation. They support comparison between states and not the pricing of an individual relocation; Hawaii anchors the distribution at $52,866. Wage and price series are published on separate cycles and therefore carry different reference periods.