Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$95,528
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$27,752
22.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$98,305
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
$123,280
Kept after tax
$95,528
Worth in national money
$98,305
State rank
10
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Texas pays this job a middle wage of $123,280, ranking 10 of 48 states and sitting about 12.82% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Texas reports, this job comes in at 35 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $123,280, take-home of $95,528 is worth roughly $98,305 in national money. The average comes to $128,830, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Texas's median for engineering teachers, postsecondary is $123,280, about 12.82% above the national figure and 10 of 48 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Engineering teachers, postsecondary ranks 35 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 engineering teachers, postsecondary, whose median is $123,280, the adjusted figure of $98,305 differs little from $95,528 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $128,830 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $62,130 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $123,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $215,640 |
| This salary | $123,280 |
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 | $95,528 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $95,528 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,965 |
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 | $123,280 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$9,028 |
| 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 engineering teachers, postsecondary in Texas earn under $123,280 and half over. The published range runs $62,130 at the tenth percentile to $215,640 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $95,528 take-home in Texas comes from $123,280. 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 35 of 493.
- Two cautions on $98,305, the adjusted value of that $123,280 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 35 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for engineering teachers, postsecondary in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $62,130 to $215,640; 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.
- Retained pay of $95,528, from $123,280, assumes a single Texas 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 35 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 10 of 48 for it.
- This $98,305 adjusted figure, worked from $123,280, 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 35 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 35 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $128,830, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $62,130 at the bottom tenth to $215,640 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 $98,305 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $95,528 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. 48 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 Texas is $128,830. 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 ($62,130) and the ninetieth ($215,640) 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 $98,305 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 $95,528 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.