Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,736
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$7,494
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,113
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
$49,230
Kept after tax
$41,736
Worth in national money
$45,113
State rank
36
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Tennessee pays this job a middle wage of $49,230, 36 of 50 states and about 9.19% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Tennessee, this sits in the middle: 287 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 $49,230 you keep $41,736 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $45,113 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $50,170, since top earners drag the number up.
- Tennessee's $49,230 median for eligibility interviewers, government programs places it 36 of 50 states, about 9.19% 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.
- Eligibility interviewers, government programs ranks 287 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 $41,736 after the full tax stack, from $49,230. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $45,113 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $50,170 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,260 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $65,170 |
| This salary | $49,230 |
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 | $41,736 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,736 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,163 |
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 | $49,230 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,616 |
| 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 eligibility interviewers, government programs in Tennessee earn under $49,230 and half over. The published range runs $40,260 at the tenth percentile to $65,170 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Tennessee the take-home figure of $41,736, from $49,230, 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 287 of 491 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $45,113, the adjusted value of that $49,230 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 287 of 491 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for eligibility interviewers, government programs in Tennessee, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $40,260 to $65,170; 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.
- Take-home for Tennessee is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $41,736 from $49,230. 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 287 of 491 locally.
- This $45,113 adjusted figure, worked from $49,230, 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 287 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 287 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $40,260 at the bottom tenth to $65,170 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Tennessee is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $45,113 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $41,736 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($40,260 to $65,170) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Tennessee rather than a national figure.
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 $45,113 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 $41,736 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.