Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,200
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$15,800
21.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,376
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$75,000
Kept after tax
$59,200
Worth in national money
$58,376
State rank
9
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Rhode Island is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $75,000, which ranks 9 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 16.59% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Rhode Island, this sits in the middle: 184 of 452 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $75,000, tax leaves $59,200, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $58,376 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $75,730, since top earners drag the number up.
- Rhode Island ranks 9 of 51 states publishing a median for educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors, at $75,000 — about 16.59% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors ranks 184 of 452 occupations in Rhode Island 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.
- Because Rhode Island sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors — median $75,000 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $59,200 retained, $58,376 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $75,730 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,100 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $102,340 |
| This salary | $75,000 |
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 Rhode Island | $59,200 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,593 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,007 |
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 | $71,599 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,917 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Rhode Island earn less than $75,000. The published range is $49,100 up to $102,340, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Rhode Island the take-home figure of $59,200, from $75,000, 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 184 of 452 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Rhode Island, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $58,376, the adjusted value of that $75,000 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 184 of 452 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors in Rhode Island the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $49,100 to $102,340. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Rhode Island is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $59,200 from $75,000. 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 184 of 452 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Rhode Island, so $58,376 — the adjusted value of that $75,000 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 184 of 452 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $49,100 at the bottom tenth to $102,340 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $58,376 of national purchasing power.
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 Rhode Island's own levy, $59,200 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($49,100 to $102,340) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Rhode Island rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $58,376 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 $59,200 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.