Education Teachers, Postsecondary in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,712
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$13,458
17.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,845
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$75,170
Kept after tax
$61,712
Worth in national money
$56,845
State rank
19
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Washington is 19 of 49 states for this job, with a middle wage of $75,170. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Washington, this sits in the middle: 236 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Washington is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $75,170 the take-home is $61,712; in national-average money that behaves like $56,845. The average comes to $77,330, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Washington ranks 19 of 49 for education teachers, postsecondary at $75,170. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Education teachers, postsecondary ranks 236 of 493 occupations in Washington 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.
- Take-home for education teachers, postsecondary in Washington, on $75,170, is $61,712; deflated by the state's price level, $56,845. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $77,330 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Education Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,540 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,170 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,650 |
| This salary | $75,170 |
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 Washington | $61,712 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,712 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,661 |
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 | $75,170 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,135 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $75,170 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $50,540 and the ninetieth is $103,650 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Washington the take-home figure of $61,712, from $75,170, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 236 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $56,845, the adjusted value of that $75,170 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. 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 236 of 493 locally.
- The Washington median of $75,170 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $50,540 to $103,650. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Washington is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $61,712 from $75,170. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 236 of 493 locally.
- This $56,845 adjusted figure, worked from $75,170, 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 236 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 236 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $50,540 at the tenth percentile, $103,650 at the ninetieth.
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 $56,845 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $61,712 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($50,540 to $103,650) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Washington rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $56,845 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $61,712 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.