Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare in North Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,472
after federal, FICA and North Dakota tax
Tax takes
$7,918
15.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,081
North Dakota costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in North Dakota — 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
$51,390
Kept after tax
$43,472
Worth in national money
$49,081
State rank
34
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in North Dakota. The middle earner gets $51,390. That is 34 of 50 states, and about 13.34% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in North Dakota, this sits in the middle: 299 of 460 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- North Dakota is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $51,390 the take-home is $43,472; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $49,081 would nationally. The average comes to $56,640, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For education and childcare administrators, preschool and daycare, North Dakota sits in the lower band at $51,390, ranking 34 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 13.34%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Education and childcare administrators, preschool and daycare ranks 299 of 460 occupations in North Dakota 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.
- Post-tax income for education and childcare administrators, preschool and daycare in North Dakota, on $51,390, is $43,472 — equivalent to $49,081 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 $56,640 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,580 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,390 |
| Top tenth earn over | $91,650 |
| This salary | $51,390 |
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 North Dakota | $43,472 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,472 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,345 |
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 | $51,390 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,255 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 89 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $51,390 as a midpoint for North Dakota, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $35,580 and the ninetieth is $91,650 — 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 North Dakota's $43,472, worked from $51,390. 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 299 of 460.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $49,081 uses one figure for the whole of North Dakota. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 460 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 299.
- The North Dakota median of $51,390 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $35,580 to $91,650. 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 North Dakota take-home of $43,472, on $51,390 for work ranking 299 of 460 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 299 of 460 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $49,081, worked from $51,390, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular North Dakota address, on work sitting at 299 of 460 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 $56,640 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 $35,580, the highest tenth $91,650, 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 $49,081.
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 North Dakota's own levy, $43,472 remains.
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 North Dakota is $56,640. 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 ($35,580) and the ninetieth ($91,650) 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?
North Dakota'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 $49,081 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 $43,472 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and North Dakota 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.