Electrical Engineers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$99,745
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$29,705
22.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$102,645
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
$129,450
Kept after tax
$99,745
Worth in national money
$102,645
State rank
6
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for electrical engineers is strong here. Texas's middle earner gets $129,450, putting the state 6 of 49 — about 7.31% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Texas reports, electrical engineers comes in at 30 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $129,450, take-home of $99,745 is worth roughly $102,645 in national money. The average comes to $135,580, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For electrical engineers, Texas sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $129,450, ranking 6 of 49 and running about 7.31% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Electrical engineers ranks 30 of 493 occupations by median in Texas, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for electrical engineers, whose median is $129,450, the adjusted figure of $102,645 differs little from $99,745 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $135,580 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Electrical Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $76,120 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $129,450 |
| Top tenth earn over | $210,160 |
| This salary | $129,450 |
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 Texas | $99,745 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $99,745 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,228 |
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 | $129,450 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$9,426 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
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 electrical engineers in Texas earn under $129,450 and half over. The published range runs $76,120 at the tenth percentile to $210,160 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $99,745, worked from $129,450. 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 30 of 493.
- Two cautions on $102,645, the adjusted value of that $129,450 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 30 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for electrical engineers in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $76,120 to $210,160; 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.
- The Texas take-home of $99,745, on $129,450 for work ranking 30 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 30 of 493 in the state.
- This $102,645 adjusted figure, worked from $129,450, 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 30 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 30 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $135,580 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $76,120, the highest tenth $210,160, 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 Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $102,645 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $99,745 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Texas is $135,580. 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 ($76,120) and the ninetieth ($210,160) 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 $102,645 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 $99,745 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.