First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,908
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$9,492
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,972
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$59,400
Kept after tax
$49,908
Worth in national money
$45,972
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Washington pays this job a middle wage of $59,400, ranking 1 of 51 states and sitting about 34.75% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Washington, this sits in the middle: 325 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $59,400, tax leaves $49,908 — and because Washington is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $45,972 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $61,990, since top earners drag the number up.
- Washington's median for first-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers is $59,400, about 34.75% above the national figure and 1 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers ranks 325 of 493 occupations in Washington 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.
- After tax, $49,908 remains from the Washington median of $59,400 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $45,972 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $61,990 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 | $44,110 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,820 |
| This salary | $59,400 |
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 Washington | $49,908 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,908 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,387 |
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 | $59,400 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,515 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $59,400 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $44,110 and the ninetieth is $81,820 — 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 Washington's $49,908, worked from $59,400. 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 325 of 493.
- Two cautions on $45,972, the adjusted value of that $59,400 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. 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 325 of 493 locally.
- The Washington median of $59,400 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $44,110 to $81,820. 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 Washington take-home of $49,908, on $59,400 for work ranking 325 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 325 of 493 in the state.
- This $45,972 adjusted figure, worked from $59,400, 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 325 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 325 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $61,990 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $44,110 at the bottom tenth to $81,820 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Washington costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $45,972 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $49,908 survives, because Washington levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 Washington is $61,990. 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 ($44,110 to $81,820) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Washington rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $45,972 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $49,908 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.