Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,077
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$9,533
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,128
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$59,610
Kept after tax
$50,077
Worth in national money
$54,128
State rank
11
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Tennessee pays this job a middle wage of $59,610, ranking 11 of 50 states and sitting about 17.13% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Tennessee, this sits in the middle: 208 of 491 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 $59,610 you keep $50,077 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $54,128 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $58,860.
- Tennessee's median for educational instruction and library workers, all other is $59,610, about 17.13% above the national figure and 11 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Educational instruction and library workers, all other ranks 208 of 491 occupations in Tennessee 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 Tennessee is $50,077 after the full tax stack, from $59,610. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $54,128 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $58,860 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,680 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,610 |
| Top tenth earn over | $80,380 |
| This salary | $59,610 |
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 Tennessee | $50,077 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,077 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,596 |
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 | $59,610 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,139 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of educational instruction and library workers, all other in Tennessee earn under $59,610 and half over. The published range runs $36,680 at the tenth percentile to $80,380 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $50,077 take-home in Tennessee comes from $59,610. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 208 of 491.
- Two cautions on $54,128, the adjusted value of that $59,610 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Tennessee. 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 208 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for educational instruction and library workers, all other in Tennessee, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,680 to $80,380; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $50,077, from $59,610, assumes a single Tennessee filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 208 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 11 of 50 for it.
- This $54,128 adjusted figure, worked from $59,610, 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 208 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 208 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $36,680, the highest tenth $80,380, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Tennessee sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $54,128 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $50,077 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 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($36,680) and the ninetieth ($80,380) 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?
Tennessee'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 $54,128 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $50,077 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.