Emergency Management Directors in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$67,652
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$20,038
22.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$66,710
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$87,690
Kept after tax
$67,652
Worth in national money
$66,710
State rank
25
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Rhode Island sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $87,690, ranking 25 of 47 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 120 among 452 occupations Rhode Island publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $87,690 the take-home is $67,652, which is worth about $66,710 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $107,470, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Rhode Island occupies the middle band for emergency management directors: a median of $87,690, ranking 25 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.
- Position 120 of 452 in Rhode Island places emergency management directors in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Rhode Island's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for emergency management directors on its $87,690 median: $67,652 retained after tax becomes $66,710 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $107,470 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Emergency Management Directors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $72,160 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $87,690 |
| Top tenth earn over | $156,310 |
| This salary | $87,690 |
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 Rhode Island | $67,652 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $70,520 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,860 |
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 | $83,613 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,095 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $87,690 as a midpoint for Rhode Island, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $72,160 and the ninetieth is $156,310 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Rhode Island's $67,652, worked from $87,690. 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 120 of 452.
- One number stands for prices across all of Rhode Island, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $66,710, the adjusted value of that $87,690 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 120 of 452 in the state.
- The Rhode Island median of $87,690 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $72,160 to $156,310. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Rhode Island take-home of $67,652, on $87,690 for work ranking 120 of 452 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 120 of 452 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Rhode Island, so $66,710 — the adjusted value of that $87,690 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 120 of 452 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 $107,470 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $72,160 and the top tenth $156,310 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $66,710 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Rhode Island's own levy, $67,652 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Rhode Island is $107,470. 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 ($72,160) and the ninetieth ($156,310) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $66,710 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $67,652 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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.