Food Service Managers in Missouri
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,683
after federal, FICA and Missouri tax
Tax takes
$12,837
19.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$57,413
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
$65,520
Kept after tax
$52,683
Worth in national money
$57,413
State rank
31
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Missouri sits in the middle of the pack for food service managers. The median is $65,520, ranking 31 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Missouri, this sits in the middle: 162 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Missouri does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $65,520 you keep $52,683, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $57,413 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $71,440, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Missouri occupies the middle band for food service managers: a median of $65,520, ranking 31 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Food service managers ranks 162 of 488 occupations in Missouri 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.
- After federal, FICA and Missouri income tax, retained pay for food service managers on $65,520 is $52,683. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $57,413 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $71,440 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Food Service Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $51,680 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $65,520 |
| Top tenth earn over | $98,400 |
| This salary | $65,520 |
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 | $52,683 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,825 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$994 |
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 | $62,854 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,233 |
| 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 $65,520. The published range is $51,680 up to $98,400, 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 Missouri's $52,683, worked from $65,520. 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 162 of 488.
- One number stands for prices across all of Missouri, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $57,413, the adjusted value of that $65,520 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 162 of 488 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for food service managers in Missouri the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $51,680 to $98,400. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Missouri take-home of $52,683, on $65,520 for work ranking 162 of 488 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 162 of 488 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Missouri, so $57,413 — the adjusted value of that $65,520 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 162 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 $71,440 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $51,680 at the bottom tenth to $98,400 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Missouri sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $57,413 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Missouri adds its own income tax on top — which is why $52,683 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $71,440. 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 ($51,680 to $98,400) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Missouri rather than a national figure.
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 $57,413 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 $52,683 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.
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.