Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$35,027
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$5,853
14.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,045
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
$40,880
Kept after tax
$35,027
Worth in national money
$36,045
State rank
37
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $40,880. That is 37 of 51 states, and about 13.32% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Texas publishes, this job lands at 381. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $40,880, tax leaves $35,027, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $36,045 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $44,880, since top earners drag the number up.
- For exercise trainers and group fitness instructors, Texas sits in the lower band at $40,880, ranking 37 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 13.32%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Texas, this work ranks 381 of 493 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for exercise trainers and group fitness instructors — median $40,880 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $35,027 retained, $36,045 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $44,880 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $21,930 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,880 |
| Top tenth earn over | $76,340 |
| This salary | $40,880 |
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 | $35,027 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $35,027 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,187 |
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 | $40,880 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,816 |
| 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 exercise trainers and group fitness instructors in Texas earn under $40,880 and half over. The published range runs $21,930 at the tenth percentile to $76,340 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $35,027, worked from $40,880. 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 381 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $36,045, the adjusted value of that $40,880 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 381 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for exercise trainers and group fitness instructors in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $21,930 to $76,340; 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.
- The Texas take-home of $35,027, on $40,880 for work ranking 381 of 493 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 381 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $36,045 — the adjusted value of that $40,880 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 381 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $44,880, 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 $21,930 at the bottom tenth to $76,340 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 $36,045 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $35,027 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $44,880. 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 ($21,930) and the ninetieth ($76,340) 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 $36,045 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 $35,027 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.