Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other in Mississippi
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,737
after federal, FICA and Mississippi tax
Tax takes
$8,713
18.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,230
Mississippi costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Mississippi — 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
$46,450
Kept after tax
$37,737
Worth in national money
$43,230
State rank
34
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Mississippi pays this job a middle wage of $46,450, 34 of 50 states and about 8.72% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Mississippi, this sits in the middle: 271 of 486 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $46,450 you keep $37,737 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $43,230 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $48,890, since top earners drag the number up.
- Mississippi's $46,450 median for educational instruction and library workers, all other places it 34 of 50 states, about 8.72% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Educational instruction and library workers, all other ranks 271 of 486 occupations in Mississippi 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.
- Retained pay in Mississippi is $37,737 after the full tax stack, from $46,450. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $43,230 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $48,890 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $21,330 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,450 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,110 |
| This salary | $46,450 |
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 Mississippi | $37,737 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,503 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,579 |
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 | $44,252 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,119 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $46,450 as a midpoint for Mississippi, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $21,330 and the ninetieth is $79,110 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Mississippi the take-home figure of $37,737, from $46,450, 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 271 of 486 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $43,230, the adjusted value of that $46,450 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Mississippi. 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 271 of 486 locally.
- The Mississippi median of $46,450 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $21,330 to $79,110. 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 Mississippi is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $37,737 from $46,450. 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 271 of 486 locally.
- This $43,230 adjusted figure, worked from $46,450, 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 271 of 486 in the state. The occupation ranks 271 of 486 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $48,890, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $21,330, the highest tenth $79,110, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Mississippi is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $43,230 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Mississippi then takes its own share, leaving $37,737.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Mississippi is $48,890. 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 ($21,330) and the ninetieth ($79,110) 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?
Mississippi'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 $43,230 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 $37,737 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Mississippi 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.