Emergency Management Directors in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$63,808
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$19,392
23.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$65,987
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$83,200
Kept after tax
$63,808
Worth in national money
$65,987
State rank
29
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Georgia sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $83,200, ranking 29 of 47 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 492 occupations Georgia reports, this job comes in at 101 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $83,200 you keep $63,808 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $65,987 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $92,770, since top earners drag the number up.
- Georgia occupies the middle band for emergency management directors: a median of $83,200, ranking 29 of 47. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Emergency management directors ranks 101 of 492 occupations by median in Georgia, 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.
- Retained pay in Georgia is $63,808 after the full tax stack, from $83,200. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $65,987 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $92,770 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Emergency Management Directors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,110 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,200 |
| Top tenth earn over | $152,120 |
| This salary | $83,200 |
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 Georgia | $63,808 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $67,361 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,333 |
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 | $78,150 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,604 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $83,200 as a midpoint for Georgia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $50,110 and the ninetieth is $152,120 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $63,808 take-home in Georgia comes from $83,200. 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 101 of 492.
- One number stands for prices across all of Georgia, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $65,987, the adjusted value of that $83,200 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 101 of 492 in the state.
- The Georgia median of $83,200 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $50,110 to $152,120. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $63,808, from $83,200, assumes a single Georgia 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 101 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 29 of 47 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Georgia, so $65,987 — the adjusted value of that $83,200 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 101 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $92,770, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $50,110 at the bottom tenth to $152,120 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Georgia is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $65,987 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Georgia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $63,808 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 Georgia is $92,770. 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 ($50,110) and the ninetieth ($152,120) 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?
Georgia'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 $65,987 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 $63,808 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.