First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,455
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$11,535
20.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,117
Virginia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Virginia — 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
$56,990
Kept after tax
$45,455
Worth in national money
$45,117
State rank
38
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Virginia. The middle earner gets $56,990. That is 38 of 48 states, and about 3.93% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Virginia, this sits in the middle: 268 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $56,990, tax leaves $45,455, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $45,117 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $60,900, since top earners drag the number up.
- For first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers, Virginia sits in the lower band at $56,990, ranking 38 of 48 and trailing the national median by about 3.93%. 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 farming, fishing, and forestry workers ranks 268 of 489 occupations in Virginia 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 Virginia sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers — median $56,990 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $45,455 retained, $45,117 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $60,900 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 | $40,710 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $89,470 |
| This salary | $56,990 |
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 Virginia | $45,455 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,971 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,249 |
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 | $53,858 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,139 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
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 first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers in Virginia earn under $56,990 and half over. The published range runs $40,710 at the tenth percentile to $89,470 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 Virginia's $45,455, worked from $56,990. 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 268 of 489.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $45,117 uses one figure for the whole of Virginia. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 489 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 268.
- Figures are distribution medians for first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers in Virginia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $40,710 to $89,470; 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 Virginia take-home of $45,455, on $56,990 for work ranking 268 of 489 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 268 of 489 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $45,117, worked from $56,990, 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 Virginia address, on work sitting at 268 of 489 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 $60,900, 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 $40,710, the highest tenth $89,470, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Virginia costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $45,117 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Virginia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $45,455 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 Virginia is $60,900. 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 ($40,710) and the ninetieth ($89,470) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Virginia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $45,117 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $45,455 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Virginia 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.