Environmental Engineers in Mississippi
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$69,367
after federal, FICA and Mississippi tax
Tax takes
$21,733
23.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$79,465
Mississippi costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Mississippi — 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
$91,100
Kept after tax
$69,367
Worth in national money
$79,465
State rank
46
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Mississippi is among the lower-paying states for environmental engineers. The middle earner takes $91,100, ranking 46 of 50 states — about 14.95% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Within Mississippi this is well-paid work. Of 486 occupations with published figures in the state, environmental engineers ranks 51 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Mississippi is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $91,100 the take-home is $69,367; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $79,465 would nationally. The average comes to $95,010, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Mississippi ranks 46 of 50 for environmental engineers, with a median of $91,100 — about 14.95% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Ranked against every occupation Mississippi publishes a median for, environmental engineers sits 51 of 486 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Post-tax income for environmental engineers in Mississippi, on $91,100, is $69,367 — equivalent to $79,465 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $95,010 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Environmental Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $57,320 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $91,100 |
| Top tenth earn over | $145,910 |
| This salary | $91,100 |
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 Mississippi | $69,367 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $72,919 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,427 |
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 | $86,051 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$6,115 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
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 environmental engineers in Mississippi earn under $91,100 and half over. The published range runs $57,320 at the tenth percentile to $145,910 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $69,367 take-home in Mississippi comes from $91,100. 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 51 of 486.
- Two cautions on $79,465, the adjusted value of that $91,100 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Mississippi. 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 51 of 486 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for environmental engineers in Mississippi, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $57,320 to $145,910; 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 $69,367, from $91,100, assumes a single Mississippi 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 51 of 486 locally, and the state ranks 46 of 50 for it.
- This $79,465 adjusted figure, worked from $91,100, 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 51 of 486 in the state. The occupation ranks 51 of 486 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $95,010, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $57,320 and the top tenth $145,910 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $79,465.
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 Mississippi's own levy, $69,367 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Mississippi is $95,010. 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 ($57,320) and the ninetieth ($145,910) 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?
Mississippi'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 $79,465 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 $69,367 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Mississippi 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.