First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,316
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$19,434
24.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,535
Hawaii costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Hawaii — 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
$79,750
Kept after tax
$60,316
Worth in national money
$55,535
State rank
13
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Hawaii pays this job a middle wage of $79,750, ranking 13 of 50 states and sitting about 4.38% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 138 among 437 occupations Hawaii publishes pay for.
- Hawaii is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $79,750 the take-home is $60,316; in national-average money that behaves like $55,535. The average lands at $75,910, below the middle of the range.
- Hawaii's median for first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other is $79,750, about 4.38% above the national figure and 13 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 138 of 437 in Hawaii places first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other 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.
- Take-home for first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other in Hawaii, on $79,750, is $60,316; deflated by the state's price level, $55,535. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $75,910 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,240 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,750 |
| Top tenth earn over | $99,940 |
| This salary | $79,750 |
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 Hawaii | $60,316 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,934 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$11,287 |
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 | $73,186 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$15,299 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Hawaii earn less than $79,750. The published range is $45,240 up to $99,940, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Hawaii the take-home figure of $60,316, from $79,750, 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 138 of 437 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $55,535, the adjusted value of that $79,750 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Hawaii. 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 138 of 437 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other in Hawaii the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,240 to $99,940. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Hawaii is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $60,316 from $79,750. 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 138 of 437 locally.
- This $55,535 adjusted figure, worked from $79,750, 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 138 of 437 in the state. The occupation ranks 138 of 437 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 $75,910, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $45,240 at the tenth percentile, $99,940 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $55,535 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Hawaii then takes its own share, leaving $60,316.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 Hawaii is $75,910. 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 ($45,240 to $99,940) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Hawaii rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Hawaii's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $55,535 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 $60,316 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Hawaii 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.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.