Funeral Attendants in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$26,735
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$3,825
12.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$27,512
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
$30,560
Kept after tax
$26,735
Worth in national money
$27,512
State rank
38
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for funeral attendants is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $30,560. That is 38 of 48 states, and about 14.35% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Texas publishes, funeral attendants lands at 471. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $30,560, tax leaves $26,735, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $27,512 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $32,510, since top earners drag the number up.
- For funeral attendants, Texas sits in the lower band at $30,560, ranking 38 of 48 and trailing the national median by about 14.35%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Texas, this work ranks 471 of 493 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for funeral attendants — median $30,560 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $26,735 retained, $27,512 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $32,510 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Funeral Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $27,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $30,560 |
| Top tenth earn over | $38,380 |
| This salary | $30,560 |
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 | $26,735 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $26,735 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,669 |
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 | $30,560 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,149 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $30,560 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $27,300 and the ninetieth is $38,380 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $26,735, worked from $30,560. 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 471 of 493.
- Two cautions on $27,512, the adjusted value of that $30,560 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 471 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $30,560 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $27,300 to $38,380. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Texas take-home of $26,735, on $30,560 for work ranking 471 of 493 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 471 of 493 in the state.
- This $27,512 adjusted figure, worked from $30,560, 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 471 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 471 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $32,510, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $27,300 and the top tenth $38,380, so most people doing this work in Texas sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $27,512.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $26,735 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Texas is $32,510. 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 ($27,300 to $38,380) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
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 $27,512 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 $26,735 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.