First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other in Missouri
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,530
after federal, FICA and Missouri tax
Tax takes
$16,270
21.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$64,874
Missouri costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Missouri — 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
$75,800
Kept after tax
$59,530
Worth in national money
$64,874
State rank
28
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Missouri pays this job around $75,800 at the midpoint, 28 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 488 occupations Missouri reports figures for, this is number 125.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $75,800 you keep $59,530 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $64,874 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $71,670.
- For first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other the Missouri median is $75,800, ranking 28 of 50 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- In Missouri's occupational distribution, first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other sits at 125 of 488 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Retained pay in Missouri is $59,530 after the full tax stack, from $75,800. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $64,874 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $71,670 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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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 | $37,910 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,800 |
| Top tenth earn over | $98,550 |
| This salary | $75,800 |
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 Missouri | $59,530 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $62,155 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$912 |
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 | $72,068 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,260 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Missouri earn less than $75,800. The published range is $37,910 up to $98,550, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $59,530 take-home in Missouri comes from $75,800. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 125 of 488.
- Two cautions on $64,874, the adjusted value of that $75,800 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Missouri. 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 125 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other in Missouri the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $37,910 to $98,550. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $59,530, from $75,800, assumes a single Missouri filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 125 of 488 locally, and the state ranks 28 of 50 for it.
- This $64,874 adjusted figure, worked from $75,800, 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 125 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 125 of 488 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 $71,670 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $37,910 at the bottom tenth to $98,550 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Missouri is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $64,874 in national terms.
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 Missouri's own levy, $59,530 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Missouri is $71,670. 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 ($37,910) and the ninetieth ($98,550) 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?
Missouri'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 $64,874 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $59,530 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Missouri 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.