First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers in Ohio
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,530
after federal, FICA and Ohio tax
Tax takes
$9,410
17.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,590
Ohio costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Ohio — 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
$54,940
Kept after tax
$45,530
Worth in national money
$49,590
State rank
42
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Ohio is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $54,940, ranking 42 of 48 states — about 7.38% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Ohio, this sits in the middle: 268 of 494 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $54,940 you keep $45,530 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $49,590 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $57,150, since top earners drag the number up.
- Ohio ranks 42 of 48 for first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers, with a median of $54,940 — about 7.38% 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.
- First-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers ranks 268 of 494 occupations in Ohio 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.
- Retained pay in Ohio is $45,530 after the full tax stack, from $54,940. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $49,590 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $57,150 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,170 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $54,940 |
| Top tenth earn over | $87,030 |
| This salary | $54,940 |
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 Ohio | $45,530 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $46,324 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,919 |
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 | $53,951 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,321 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $54,940 as a midpoint for Ohio, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $35,170 and the ninetieth is $87,030 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Ohio the take-home figure of $45,530, from $54,940, 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 268 of 494 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $49,590, the adjusted value of that $54,940 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Ohio. 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 268 of 494 locally.
- The Ohio median of $54,940 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $35,170 to $87,030. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Ohio is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $45,530 from $54,940. 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 268 of 494 locally.
- This $49,590 adjusted figure, worked from $54,940, 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 268 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 268 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $57,150, 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 $35,170 and the top tenth $87,030 — 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 $49,590.
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 Ohio's own levy, $45,530 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 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 Ohio is $57,150. 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 ($35,170) and the ninetieth ($87,030) 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?
Ohio'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 $49,590 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 $45,530 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Ohio 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.