First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,471
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$10,119
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,996
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
$62,590
Kept after tax
$52,471
Worth in national money
$53,996
State rank
40
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $62,590. That is 40 of 49 states, and about 19.73% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 192 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 $62,590, tax leaves $52,471, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $53,996 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $68,630, since top earners drag the number up.
- For first-line supervisors of correctional officers, Texas sits in the lower band at $62,590, ranking 40 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 19.73%. 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 correctional officers ranks 192 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 correctional officers — median $62,590 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $52,471 retained, $53,996 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $68,630 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,890 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $97,080 |
| This salary | $62,590 |
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 | $52,471 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $52,471 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,276 |
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 | $62,590 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,262 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $62,590 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $59,890 and the ninetieth is $97,080 — 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 $52,471, worked from $62,590. 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 192 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $53,996 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 192.
- The Texas median of $62,590 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $59,890 to $97,080. 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 $52,471, on $62,590 for work ranking 192 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 192 of 493 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $53,996, worked from $62,590, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Texas address, on work sitting at 192 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 $68,630, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $59,890 at the bottom tenth to $97,080 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $53,996.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $52,471 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.
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 $68,630. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($59,890 to $97,080) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
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 $53,996 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 $52,471 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.