Forest and Conservation Technicians in North Dakota
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,012
after federal, FICA and North Dakota tax
Tax takes
$11,588
16.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$64,368
North Dakota costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in North Dakota — 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
$68,600
Kept after tax
$57,012
Worth in national money
$64,368
State rank
1
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. North Dakota pays this job a middle wage of $68,600, ranking 1 of 45 states and sitting about 25.73% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 164 among 460 occupations North Dakota publishes pay for.
- North Dakota is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $68,600 the take-home is $57,012; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $64,368 would nationally. The average lands at $63,950, below the middle of the range.
- North Dakota's median for forest and conservation technicians is $68,600, about 25.73% above the national figure and 1 of 45 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 164 of 460 in North Dakota places forest and conservation technicians 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.
- Post-tax income for forest and conservation technicians in North Dakota, on $68,600, is $57,012 — equivalent to $64,368 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $63,950 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Forest and Conservation Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,950 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $68,600 |
| Top tenth earn over | $71,120 |
| This salary | $68,600 |
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 North Dakota | $57,012 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $57,090 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,618 |
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 | $68,488 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$7,760 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 89 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in North Dakota earn less than $68,600. The published range is $44,950 up to $71,120, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In North Dakota the take-home figure of $57,012, from $68,600, 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 164 of 460 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $64,368, the adjusted value of that $68,600 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of North Dakota. 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 164 of 460 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for forest and conservation technicians in North Dakota the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $44,950 to $71,120. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for North Dakota is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $57,012 from $68,600. 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 164 of 460 locally.
- This $64,368 adjusted figure, worked from $68,600, 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 164 of 460 in the state. The occupation ranks 164 of 460 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 $63,950, 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 — $44,950 at the tenth percentile, $71,120 at the ninetieth.
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 $64,368.
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 North Dakota adds its own income tax on top — which is why $57,012 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 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 North Dakota is $63,950. 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 ($44,950 to $71,120) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to North Dakota rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
North Dakota'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 $64,368 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 $57,012 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and North Dakota 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.