Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,791
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$13,069
17.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$62,558
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
$73,860
Kept after tax
$60,791
Worth in national money
$62,558
State rank
31
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Texas pays this job around $73,860 at the midpoint, 31 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 150 among 493 occupations Texas publishes pay for.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $73,860, take-home of $60,791 is worth roughly $62,558 in national money. The average comes to $75,100, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters, all other the Texas median is $73,860, ranking 31 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 150 of 493 in Texas places engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters, all other 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.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters, all other, whose median is $73,860, the adjusted figure of $62,558 differs little from $60,791 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $75,100 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,720 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $73,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $113,050 |
| This salary | $73,860 |
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 | $60,791 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $60,791 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,796 |
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 | $73,860 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,582 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $73,860 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,720 and the ninetieth is $113,050 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $60,791, from $73,860, 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 150 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $62,558, the adjusted value of that $73,860 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 150 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $73,860 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,720 to $113,050. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $60,791 from $73,860. 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 150 of 493 locally.
- This $62,558 adjusted figure, worked from $73,860, 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 150 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 150 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $38,720 and the top tenth $113,050 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $62,558 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $60,791 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($38,720) and the ninetieth ($113,050) 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 $62,558 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 $60,791 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.