First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$66,140
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$19,280
22.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$65,219
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$85,420
Kept after tax
$66,140
Worth in national money
$65,219
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Rhode Island's middle earner gets $85,420, putting the state 17 of 51 — about 2.4% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 130 among 452 occupations Rhode Island publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $85,420 the take-home is $66,140, which is worth about $65,219 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $100,590, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For first-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers, Rhode Island sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $85,420, ranking 17 of 51 and running about 2.4% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Position 130 of 452 in Rhode Island places first-line supervisors of non-retail sales 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.
- Rhode Island's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for first-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers on its $85,420 median: $66,140 retained after tax becomes $65,219 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $100,590 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $60,530 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $85,420 |
| Top tenth earn over | $158,090 |
| This salary | $85,420 |
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 Rhode Island | $66,140 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $68,923 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,708 |
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 | $81,464 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,884 |
| 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 non-retail sales workers in Rhode Island earn under $85,420 and half over. The published range runs $60,530 at the tenth percentile to $158,090 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Rhode Island the take-home figure of $66,140, from $85,420, 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 130 of 452 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $65,219, the adjusted value of that $85,420 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Rhode Island. 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 130 of 452 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for first-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers in Rhode Island, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $60,530 to $158,090; 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.
- Take-home for Rhode Island is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $66,140 from $85,420. 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 130 of 452 locally.
- This $65,219 adjusted figure, worked from $85,420, 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 130 of 452 in the state. The occupation ranks 130 of 452 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 $100,590 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $60,530 and the top tenth $158,090 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Rhode Island costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $65,219 rather than its face figure.
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 Rhode Island's own levy, $66,140 remains.
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 Rhode Island is $100,590. 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 ($60,530) and the ninetieth ($158,090) 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?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $65,219 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 $66,140 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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.
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.