First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,492
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$4,988
13.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,407
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
$36,480
Kept after tax
$31,492
Worth in national money
$32,407
State rank
46
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $36,480, ranking 46 of 51 states — about 17.24% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Measured against other jobs in Texas, this one sits low: 430 of 493 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $36,480, tax leaves $31,492, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $32,407 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $41,100, since top earners drag the number up.
- Texas ranks 46 of 51 for first-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers, with a median of $36,480 — about 17.24% 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 food preparation and serving workers occupies position 430 of 493 in Texas's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for first-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers — median $36,480 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $31,492 retained, $32,407 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $41,100 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $36,480 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,560 |
| This salary | $36,480 |
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 | $31,492 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $31,492 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,966 |
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 | $36,480 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,532 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $36,480. The published range is $28,010 up to $61,560, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $31,492 take-home in Texas comes from $36,480. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 430 of 493.
- Two cautions on $32,407, the adjusted value of that $36,480 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 430 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $28,010 to $61,560. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $31,492, from $36,480, assumes a single Texas filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 430 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 46 of 51 for it.
- This $32,407 adjusted figure, worked from $36,480, 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 430 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 430 of 493 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 $41,100, 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $28,010 and the top tenth $61,560 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Texas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $32,407 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $31,492 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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.
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 $41,100. 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 ($28,010) and the ninetieth ($61,560) 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 $32,407 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 $31,492 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.