Food Batchmakers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,311
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$5,189
13.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,251
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
$37,500
Kept after tax
$32,311
Worth in national money
$33,251
State rank
37
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas is among the lower-paying states for food batchmakers. The middle earner takes $37,500, ranking 37 of 50 states — about 11.33% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Within Texas this is lower-paid work. Of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, food batchmakers ranks 415. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $37,500 the take-home is $32,311, which is worth about $33,251 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $37,930, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas ranks 37 of 50 for food batchmakers, with a median of $37,500 — about 11.33% 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.
- Against every occupation Texas reports, food batchmakers ranks 415 of 493, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for food batchmakers on its $37,500 median: $32,311 retained after tax becomes $33,251 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $37,930 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Food Batchmakers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $22,410 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $53,100 |
| This salary | $37,500 |
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 | $32,311 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $32,311 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,017 |
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 | $37,500 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,598 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $37,500 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $22,410 and the ninetieth is $53,100 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $32,311 take-home in Texas comes from $37,500. 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 415 of 493.
- Two cautions on $33,251, the adjusted value of that $37,500 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 415 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $37,500 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $22,410 to $53,100. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $32,311, from $37,500, assumes a single Texas 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 415 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 37 of 50 for it.
- This $33,251 adjusted figure, worked from $37,500, 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 415 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 415 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $22,410, the highest tenth $53,100, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $33,251 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $32,311 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($22,410) and the ninetieth ($53,100) 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 $33,251 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 $32,311 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.
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.