First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,173
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$11,967
17.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$59,865
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
$70,140
Kept after tax
$58,173
Worth in national money
$59,865
State rank
40
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $70,140. That is 40 of 51 states, and about 5.79% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 157 among 493 occupations Texas publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $70,140, tax leaves $58,173, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $59,865 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $74,590, since top earners drag the number up.
- For first-line supervisors of production and operating workers, Texas sits in the lower band at $70,140, ranking 40 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 5.79%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 157 of 493 in Texas places first-line supervisors of production and operating 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for first-line supervisors of production and operating workers — median $70,140 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $58,173 retained, $59,865 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $74,590 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $70,140 |
| Top tenth earn over | $115,230 |
| This salary | $70,140 |
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 | $58,173 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $58,173 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,632 |
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 | $70,140 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,341 |
| 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 $70,140. The published range is $43,360 up to $115,230, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $58,173, worked from $70,140. 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 157 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $59,865 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 157.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of production and operating workers in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $43,360 to $115,230. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Texas take-home of $58,173, on $70,140 for work ranking 157 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 157 of 493 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $59,865, worked from $70,140, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Texas address, on work sitting at 157 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 $74,590 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 $43,360 and the top tenth $115,230 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $59,865 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $58,173 survives, because Texas 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?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 $74,590. 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 ($43,360) and the ninetieth ($115,230) 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 $59,865 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 $58,173 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.