First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,255
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$13,265
17.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,036
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
$74,520
Kept after tax
$61,255
Worth in national money
$63,036
State rank
45
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 $74,520. That is 45 of 51 states, and about 6.76% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 146 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 $74,520, tax leaves $61,255, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $63,036 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $76,630, since top earners drag the number up.
- For first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers, Texas sits in the lower band at $74,520, ranking 45 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 6.76%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers ranks 146 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 first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers — median $74,520 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $61,255 retained, $63,036 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $76,630 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,520 |
| Top tenth earn over | $109,460 |
| This salary | $74,520 |
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 | $61,255 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $61,255 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,825 |
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 | $74,520 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,624 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $74,520 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $48,000 and the ninetieth is $109,460 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $61,255, worked from $74,520. 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 146 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $63,036, the adjusted value of that $74,520 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 146 of 493 in the state.
- The Texas median of $74,520 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $48,000 to $109,460. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Texas take-home of $61,255, on $74,520 for work ranking 146 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 146 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $63,036 — the adjusted value of that $74,520 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 146 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 $48,000 and the top tenth $109,460 — 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 $63,036 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $61,255 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.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($48,000) and the ninetieth ($109,460) 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 $63,036 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 $61,255 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.