Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other
What the pay figures show
- The District of Columbia pays this job the most, $83,130. It still pays the most after tax. What it does not do is stay ahead once you count what living there costs. Level that out and South Dakota wins, at $59,945. Same work. A wage that goes further.
- For educational instruction and library workers, all other, the District of Columbia leads both nominally at $83,130 and after tax — state income tax differentials are not large enough here to disturb the ordering. Regional price parity is: deflating take-home by each state's price level puts South Dakota first at $59,945. The adjustment that matters for this occupation is therefore cost of living rather than tax, which is the opposite of the assumption most relocation comparisons start from.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$50,890
People doing it
118,590
Highest paid
$83,130
DC
Best off, really
$59,945
SD, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$25,180
Highest tenth
$98,740
Lowest, really
$22,108
GA
States with data
50
National average
$59,060
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
88.09%
SD, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Where you do this job matters enormously. The best state pays roughly twice what the worst does. Prices alone cannot explain a gap that size. Level everything out and the range still runs $22,108 to $59,945.
- Roughly 118,590 people hold this job nationally, earning $50,890 in the middle. A solid, ordinary-sized job.
- This job is not published everywhere — 50 jurisdictions have a figure, with $50,890 in the middle. Where one is missing, it was never released. The District of Columbia tops the ones that are.
- Geographic dispersion in educational instruction and library workers, all other is unusually wide: the top state's median is approximately double the bottom's, a spread that price differentials cannot account for. The real-terms range, after tax and price deflation, still runs $22,108 to $59,945 — so the variation reflects genuine differences in local labor markets rather than a nominal illusion.
- 118,590 are employed nationally in educational instruction and library workers, all other, placing it well inside the reported range without approaching the highest-headcount occupations.
- 50 jurisdictions carry a published median for educational instruction and library workers, all other. ⚠️ Suppression is not random: it correlates with small state-level samples, so the reported set skews toward larger employers of this occupation.
Pay band: Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $25,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,890 |
| Top tenth earn over | $98,740 |
| This salary | $50,890 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other
The national median for this job
$50,890around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $25,180 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $50,890 |
| Top tenth | $98,740 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other, state by state
The national median for this job
50states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Georgia · $24,780 |
|---|---|
| Highest | District of Columbia · $83,130 |
| Spread | $58,350 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $40,930 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $42,120 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| SD | $63,010 | $52,809 | $59,945 |
| DC | $83,130 | $63,214 | $57,051 |
| NH | $70,990 | $58,771 | $55,790 |
| TN | $59,610 | $50,077 | $54,128 |
| ND | $56,930 | $47,923 | $54,107 |
| WI | $61,940 | $49,726 | $53,413 |
| NM | $58,840 | $47,858 | $52,949 |
| NC | $61,580 | $49,711 | $52,806 |
| SC | $59,210 | $48,145 | $51,671 |
| CO | $64,090 | $51,565 | $50,862 |
| LA | $53,790 | $44,173 | $50,000 |
| AZ | $58,220 | $47,907 | $47,383 |
| AK | $56,470 | $47,554 | $46,752 |
| HI | $64,450 | $50,511 | $46,507 |
| MD | $59,830 | $47,775 | $45,953 |
| MA | $62,630 | $49,692 | $45,910 |
| CA | $64,100 | $51,629 | $45,859 |
| MT | $50,710 | $41,299 | $45,763 |
| KS | $51,690 | $41,117 | $45,704 |
| DE | $56,870 | $45,286 | $45,626 |
| WY | $48,520 | $41,166 | $45,313 |
| WA | $58,500 | $49,185 | $45,306 |
| OK | $48,380 | $39,377 | $44,601 |
| MN | $54,640 | $43,891 | $44,597 |
| NV | $49,720 | $42,130 | $43,442 |
| MS | $46,450 | $37,737 | $43,230 |
| OH | $46,860 | $39,260 | $42,761 |
| MI | $49,300 | $39,948 | $42,415 |
| VA | $52,590 | $42,173 | $41,859 |
| MO | $45,790 | $37,757 | $41,147 |
| KY | $45,350 | $37,149 | $41,063 |
| NJ | $54,550 | $44,545 | $40,911 |
| CT | $51,910 | $41,785 | $40,298 |
| NY | $52,000 | $41,751 | $38,793 |
| NE | $42,270 | $34,924 | $38,643 |
| FL | $47,030 | $39,969 | $38,635 |
| ME | $45,680 | $37,121 | $38,230 |
| ID | $42,520 | $34,945 | $38,222 |
| IA | $40,620 | $33,886 | $38,175 |
| AR | $39,380 | $32,823 | $37,943 |
| IL | $46,390 | $37,303 | $37,735 |
| TX | $40,930 | $35,067 | $36,087 |
| OR | $48,160 | $37,213 | $35,535 |
| VT | $40,880 | $33,914 | $35,095 |
| WV | $37,230 | $31,139 | $34,686 |
| AL | $37,630 | $30,816 | $34,251 |
| IN | $37,600 | $31,312 | $33,967 |
| PA | $38,760 | $32,134 | $32,958 |
| UT | $38,020 | $31,037 | $32,670 |
| GA | $24,780 | $21,379 | $22,108 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for this job as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $50,890, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- Take-home figures for this job assume one person filing alone, with no dependants and nothing going into a pension before tax. Any of those lowers the tax and raises what you keep, so treat these as the plain case rather than your case. Local city income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those matter. In the District of Columbia, the best state after tax, the figure works out at $63,214.
- Levelling out prices for this job is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Georgia sits at the bottom on $22,108.
- These are distribution medians for educational instruction and library workers, all other, with a national value of $50,890. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- Take-home calculations for educational instruction and library workers, all other assume a single filer with no dependants, the standard deduction, and no pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figures function as a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape; the highest such figure is $63,214, in the District of Columbia. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of a few other states.
- The price deflation applied to educational instruction and library workers, all other uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Georgia at $22,108. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Georgia anchors the bottom at $22,108 — and the two source series are dated independently.