First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other in Pennsylvania
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,982
after federal, FICA and Pennsylvania tax
Tax takes
$12,168
19.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,290
Pennsylvania costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Pennsylvania — 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
$63,150
Kept after tax
$50,982
Worth in national money
$52,290
State rank
42
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pennsylvania is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $63,150, ranking 42 of 50 states — about 17.34% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Pennsylvania, this sits in the middle: 209 of 492 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $63,150 the take-home is $50,982, which is worth about $52,290 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $66,100, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Pennsylvania ranks 42 of 50 for first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other, with a median of $63,150 — about 17.34% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- First-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other ranks 209 of 492 occupations in Pennsylvania by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Pennsylvania's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other on its $63,150 median: $50,982 retained after tax becomes $52,290 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $66,100 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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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 | $37,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $95,440 |
| This salary | $63,150 |
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 Pennsylvania | $50,982 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,921 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,170 |
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 | $60,737 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,624 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
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 protective service workers, all other in Pennsylvania earn under $63,150 and half over. The published range runs $37,000 at the tenth percentile to $95,440 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $50,982 take-home in Pennsylvania comes from $63,150. 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 209 of 492.
- Two cautions on $52,290, the adjusted value of that $63,150 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Pennsylvania. 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 209 of 492 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for first-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other in Pennsylvania, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,000 to $95,440; 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.
- Retained pay of $50,982, from $63,150, assumes a single Pennsylvania 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 209 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 42 of 50 for it.
- This $52,290 adjusted figure, worked from $63,150, 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 209 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 209 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $66,100, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $37,000, the highest tenth $95,440, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $52,290.
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 Pennsylvania's own levy, $50,982 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 Pennsylvania is $66,100. 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 ($37,000) and the ninetieth ($95,440) 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?
Pennsylvania'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 $52,290 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 $50,982 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Pennsylvania 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.