First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers
What the pay figures show
- Where are this job paid best? Rhode Island, at $60,680. That answer does not survive a pay stub. Take income tax out and Washington is ahead. Then count what things cost locally, and Vermont wins — the money there behaves like $49,078. Three questions. Three different states.
- The nominal leader for first-line supervisors of personal service workers is Rhode Island at $60,680, but the ordering does not hold through either adjustment. Applying federal, FICA and state income tax moves the top position to Washington; deflating by regional price parity moves it again, to Vermont at $49,078 in national-average terms. ⚠️ Federal tax is not what does this — it is uniform across states and cannot change a ranking. State income tax reorders first, price level second, and the two act independently.
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Pay by state · May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
National median
$48,590
People doing it
114,110
Highest paid
$60,680
RI
Best off, really
$49,078
VT, after tax and prices
Lowest tenth
$34,010
Highest tenth
$75,330
Lowest, really
$35,159
OK
States with data
51
National average
$52,360
mean, not median
Prices where it goes furthest
96.64%
VT, against a national 100
Where this job actually pays best
- Pay for this job is fairly steady around the country. Count tax and local prices and the states bunch closer still, from $35,159 to $49,078. For work like this, where you live changes your life more than it changes your pay.
- About 114,110 Americans work in this job, on a middle wage of $48,590. Big enough that where you live changes the arithmetic.
- Coverage is complete — all 51 jurisdictions publish this, on a middle wage of $48,590. Nothing is missing.
- Geographic dispersion in first-line supervisors of personal service workers is moderate by national standards. Tax and price adjustment compress the distribution further, to a real range of $35,159 through $49,078. Where nominal spread is this contained, relocation decisions in the occupation turn on non-wage factors, because the wage differential does not survive the adjustments in a form large enough to drive them.
- With 114,110 workers, first-line supervisors of personal service workers sits in the middle of the BLS headcount distribution. The state-level spread described above therefore applies to a meaningful population rather than a niche one.
- Coverage for first-line supervisors of personal service workers is complete at 51 jurisdictions. No suppression applies, so the highest and lowest figures above are genuinely the national extremes.
Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers
The national median for this job
50thpercentile, roughly
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,330 |
| This salary | $48,590 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
Where these numbers come from
| BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates, time-series bulk download (oe.data.0.Current) | as of 2025-05-01 |
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Steps in First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers
The national median for this job
$48,590around the 50th percentile
| Lowest tenth | $34,010 |
|---|---|
| Middle | $48,590 |
| Top tenth | $75,330 |
The five points BLS publishes. Nothing between them is invented.
First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers, state by state
The national median for this job
51states publish pay for this job
| Lowest | Oklahoma · $37,390 |
|---|---|
| Highest | Rhode Island · $60,680 |
| Spread | $23,290 |
One dot per state that publishes this job. A missing state means suppressed data, not zero pay.
Best paid, and best off
The national median for this job
| Texas pays | $45,560 |
|---|---|
| Worth, after local prices | $46,884 |
Median pay against the same pay once BEA price parities are applied.
Every state, three ways
Sorted by what the money is actually worth. "Kept" is take-home for a single filer after federal, FICA and state income tax. "Really worth" divides that by the state's own price level, so a dollar in each row buys the same thing. Tap a state to put your own salary into it. States BLS does not publish for this job are absent — that means no published figure, not no work.
| State | Median pay | Kept after tax | Really worth |
|---|---|---|---|
| VT | $58,490 | $47,427 | $49,078 |
| RI | $60,680 | $49,081 | $48,398 |
| ND | $50,390 | $42,668 | $48,174 |
| SD | $49,860 | $42,243 | $47,951 |
| WA | $59,980 | $50,374 | $46,401 |
| NM | $49,100 | $40,488 | $44,794 |
| MT | $48,320 | $39,491 | $43,760 |
| CO | $54,530 | $44,304 | $43,700 |
| ME | $52,780 | $42,346 | $43,612 |
| NY | $58,900 | $46,923 | $43,598 |
| IN | $48,590 | $39,818 | $43,194 |
| TN | $46,510 | $39,551 | $42,751 |
| WY | $45,610 | $38,828 | $42,739 |
| OR | $58,240 | $44,430 | $42,427 |
| KS | $47,370 | $37,887 | $42,113 |
| MN | $51,160 | $41,332 | $41,996 |
| ID | $46,860 | $38,202 | $41,785 |
| NE | $46,010 | $37,759 | $41,780 |
| AK | $49,380 | $41,857 | $41,151 |
| DC | $56,670 | $45,477 | $41,043 |
| CT | $52,720 | $42,391 | $40,883 |
| WI | $46,350 | $37,991 | $40,808 |
| NJ | $54,330 | $44,380 | $40,760 |
| NH | $50,580 | $42,821 | $40,648 |
| CA | $56,110 | $45,705 | $40,598 |
| PA | $47,990 | $39,267 | $40,274 |
| HI | $54,950 | $43,599 | $40,143 |
| TX | $45,560 | $38,787 | $39,915 |
| MD | $51,510 | $41,485 | $39,903 |
| IL | $49,150 | $39,384 | $39,840 |
| MA | $53,740 | $42,993 | $39,721 |
| SC | $44,100 | $37,006 | $39,716 |
| NC | $45,400 | $37,356 | $39,682 |
| DE | $48,940 | $39,354 | $39,650 |
| MO | $43,720 | $36,192 | $39,441 |
| AZ | $47,690 | $39,709 | $39,275 |
| VA | $48,990 | $39,487 | $39,194 |
| NV | $44,290 | $37,767 | $38,943 |
| FL | $47,330 | $40,210 | $38,868 |
| GA | $46,080 | $37,505 | $38,785 |
| AR | $39,420 | $32,854 | $37,978 |
| KY | $41,490 | $34,183 | $37,784 |
| UT | $44,010 | $35,584 | $37,456 |
| MI | $42,740 | $34,956 | $37,114 |
| AL | $40,810 | $33,231 | $36,936 |
| LA | $38,670 | $32,477 | $36,762 |
| OH | $39,660 | $33,673 | $36,676 |
| IA | $38,780 | $32,478 | $36,588 |
| MS | $37,910 | $31,216 | $35,761 |
| WV | $38,120 | $31,826 | $35,452 |
| OK | $37,390 | $31,041 | $35,159 |
Sources and assumptions
- Treat the numbers for this job as a midpoint, not a promise. The national middle is $48,590, which means half of everyone doing this work earns less than that. Where you land depends on how long you have done it, who you do it for, and which city you do it in.
- Take-home figures for this job assume one person filing alone, with no dependants and nothing going into a pension before tax. Any of those lowers the tax and raises what you keep, so treat these as the plain case rather than your case. Local city income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those matter. In Washington, the best state after tax, the figure works out at $50,374.
- Levelling out prices for this job is done with one number per state, which is a simplification. Living costs inside a state vary a lot between its cities and its countryside. The comparison shows which way the ranking moves, not an exact figure for any address — Oklahoma sits at the bottom on $35,159.
- These are distribution medians for first-line supervisors of personal service workers, with a national value of $48,590. They describe a midpoint rather than an expected offer, and the within-occupation spread — visible in the tenth and ninetieth percentile figures — is wide enough that a state-level median is a weak predictor for any individual worker.
- Take-home calculations for first-line supervisors of personal service workers assume a single filer with no dependants, the standard deduction, and no pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figures function as a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape; the highest such figure is $50,374, in Washington. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and parts of a few other states.
- The price deflation applied to first-line supervisors of personal service workers uses state-level parities. Within-state dispersion in price level, concentrated in housing, is large enough that a state figure describes no particular locality well; the bottom of this occupation's real range is Oklahoma at $35,159. The comparison establishes the direction and rough magnitude of the reordering rather than an address-level result — Oklahoma anchors the bottom at $35,159 — and the two source series are dated independently.