First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers in Wisconsin
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,225
after federal, FICA and Wisconsin tax
Tax takes
$12,385
19.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,949
Wisconsin costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Wisconsin — 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
$62,610
Kept after tax
$50,225
Worth in national money
$53,949
State rank
16
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Wisconsin pays this job a middle wage of $62,610, ranking 16 of 48 states and sitting about 5.55% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 222 among 491 occupations Wisconsin publishes pay for.
- Wisconsin is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $62,610 the take-home is $50,225; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $53,949 would nationally. The average comes to $63,090, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Wisconsin's median for first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers is $62,610, about 5.55% above the national figure and 16 of 48 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 222 of 491 in Wisconsin places first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Post-tax income for first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers in Wisconsin, on $62,610, is $50,225 — equivalent to $53,949 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $63,090 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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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 | $38,480 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,610 |
| Top tenth earn over | $92,940 |
| This salary | $62,610 |
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 Wisconsin | $50,225 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,487 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$64 |
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 | $59,795 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$77 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Wisconsin earn less than $62,610. The published range is $38,480 up to $92,940, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Wisconsin the take-home figure of $50,225, from $62,610, 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 222 of 491 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $53,949, the adjusted value of that $62,610 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Wisconsin. 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 222 of 491 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers in Wisconsin the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $38,480 to $92,940. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Wisconsin is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $50,225 from $62,610. 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 222 of 491 locally.
- This $53,949 adjusted figure, worked from $62,610, 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 222 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 222 of 491 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 $38,480 and the top tenth $92,940 — 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 $53,949.
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 Wisconsin's own levy, $50,225 remains.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($38,480) and the ninetieth ($92,940) 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?
Wisconsin'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 $53,949 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 $50,225 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Wisconsin 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.