Education Administrators, All Other in Vermont
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$65,192
after federal, FICA and Vermont tax
Tax takes
$19,908
23.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$67,462
Vermont costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Vermont — 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
$85,100
Kept after tax
$65,192
Worth in national money
$67,462
State rank
31
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Vermont pays this job around $85,100 at the midpoint, 31 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Vermont. It ranks 88 out of 453 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $85,100 you keep $65,192 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $67,462 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $98,510, since top earners drag the number up.
- For education administrators, all other the Vermont median is $85,100, ranking 31 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Vermont, education administrators, all other ranks 88 of 453 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Retained pay in Vermont is $65,192 after the full tax stack, from $85,100. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $67,462 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $98,510 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Education Administrators, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $60,210 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $85,100 |
| Top tenth earn over | $177,790 |
| This salary | $85,100 |
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 Vermont | $65,192 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $68,698 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,233 |
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 | $80,116 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,466 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $85,100 as a midpoint for Vermont, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $60,210 and the ninetieth is $177,790 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $65,192 take-home in Vermont comes from $85,100. 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 88 of 453.
- One number stands for prices across all of Vermont, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $67,462, the adjusted value of that $85,100 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 88 of 453 in the state.
- The Vermont median of $85,100 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $60,210 to $177,790. 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 $65,192, from $85,100, assumes a single Vermont 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 88 of 453 locally, and the state ranks 31 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Vermont, so $67,462 — the adjusted value of that $85,100 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 88 of 453 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 $98,510 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 $60,210 and the top tenth $177,790 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Vermont sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $67,462 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Vermont's own levy, $65,192 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 Vermont is $98,510. 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 ($60,210) and the ninetieth ($177,790) 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?
Vermont'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 $67,462 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 $65,192 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Vermont 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.