Financial Specialists, All Other in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,236
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$12,414
17.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$60,958
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
$71,650
Kept after tax
$59,236
Worth in national money
$60,958
State rank
41
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for financial specialists, all other is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $71,650. That is 41 of 50 states, and about 11.65% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 156 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $71,650, tax leaves $59,236, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $60,958 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $77,870, since top earners drag the number up.
- For financial specialists, all other, Texas sits in the lower band at $71,650, ranking 41 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 11.65%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Financial specialists, all other ranks 156 of 493 occupations in Texas by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for financial specialists, all other — median $71,650 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $59,236 retained, $60,958 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $77,870 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Financial Specialists, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,380 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $71,650 |
| Top tenth earn over | $118,730 |
| This salary | $71,650 |
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 | $59,236 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $59,236 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,699 |
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 | $71,650 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,439 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $71,650. The published range is $42,380 up to $118,730, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $59,236, from $71,650, 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 156 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $60,958, the adjusted value of that $71,650 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 156 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for financial specialists, all other in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $42,380 to $118,730. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $59,236 from $71,650. 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 156 of 493 locally.
- This $60,958 adjusted figure, worked from $71,650, 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 156 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 156 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 $77,870, 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $42,380, the highest tenth $118,730, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $60,958 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $59,236 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?
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 Texas is $77,870. 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 ($42,380) and the ninetieth ($118,730) 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 $60,958 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 $59,236 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.