Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,924
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$13,126
17.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$62,695
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$74,050
Kept after tax
$60,924
Worth in national money
$62,695
State rank
37
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $74,050, ranking 37 of 51 states — about 5.29% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Texas reports figures for, this is number 149.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $74,050, tax leaves $60,924, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $62,695 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $73,620.
- Texas ranks 37 of 51 for electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians, with a median of $74,050 — about 5.29% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- In Texas's occupational distribution, electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians sits at 149 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians — median $74,050 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $60,924 retained, $62,695 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $73,620 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,050 |
| Top tenth earn over | $105,560 |
| This salary | $74,050 |
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 Texas | $60,924 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $60,924 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,804 |
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 | $74,050 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,594 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $74,050. The published range is $41,550 up to $105,560, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $60,924, worked from $74,050. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 149 of 493.
- Two cautions on $62,695, the adjusted value of that $74,050 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 149 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $41,550 to $105,560. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Texas take-home of $60,924, on $74,050 for work ranking 149 of 493 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 149 of 493 in the state.
- This $62,695 adjusted figure, worked from $74,050, 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 149 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 149 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $41,550 at the bottom tenth to $105,560 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $62,695 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $60,924 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($41,550) and the ninetieth ($105,560) 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?
Texas'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 $62,695 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?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $60,924 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.
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.