Education Administrators, All Other in California
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$73,758
after federal, FICA and California tax
Tax takes
$25,892
26.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$65,516
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
$99,650
Kept after tax
$73,758
Worth in national money
$65,516
State rank
15
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. California's middle earner gets $99,650, putting the state 15 of 49 — about 4.67% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 128 among 492 occupations California publishes pay for.
- California is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $99,650 the take-home is $73,758; in national-average money that behaves like $65,516. The average comes to $111,090, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For education administrators, all other, California sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $99,650, ranking 15 of 49 and running about 4.67% 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.
- Position 128 of 492 in California places education administrators, all other 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.
- Take-home for education administrators, all other in California, on $99,650, is $73,758; deflated by the state's price level, $65,516. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $111,090 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Education Administrators, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $61,970 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $99,650 |
| Top tenth earn over | $179,970 |
| This salary | $99,650 |
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 | $73,758 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $78,934 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$15,713 |
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 | $92,293 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$21,704 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 113 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $99,650 as a midpoint for California, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $61,970 and the ninetieth is $179,970 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind California's $73,758, worked from $99,650. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 128 of 492.
- Two cautions on $65,516, the adjusted value of that $99,650 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 128 of 492 locally.
- The California median of $99,650 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $61,970 to $179,970. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The California take-home of $73,758, on $99,650 for work ranking 128 of 492 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 128 of 492 in the state.
- This $65,516 adjusted figure, worked from $99,650, 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 128 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 128 of 492 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 $111,090 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 $61,970 and the top tenth $179,970 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $65,516 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and California adds its own income tax on top — which is why $73,758 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 California is $111,090. 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 ($61,970) and the ninetieth ($179,970) 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.
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 $65,516 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 $73,758 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.
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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.