General and Operations Managers in Pennsylvania
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$78,216
after federal, FICA and Pennsylvania tax
Tax takes
$24,914
24.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$80,221
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
$103,130
Kept after tax
$78,216
Worth in national money
$80,221
State rank
27
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Pennsylvania pays this job around $103,130 at the midpoint, 27 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 492 occupations Pennsylvania reports, this job comes in at 49 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $103,130, tax leaves $78,216, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $80,221 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $126,200, since top earners drag the number up.
- For general and operations managers the Pennsylvania median is $103,130, ranking 27 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- General and operations managers ranks 49 of 492 occupations by median in Pennsylvania, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Because Pennsylvania sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for general and operations managers — median $103,130 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $78,216 retained, $80,221 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $126,200 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: General and Operations Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,990 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $103,130 |
| Top tenth earn over | $220,530 |
| This salary | $103,130 |
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 | $78,216 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $81,382 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,526 |
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 | $98,630 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,871 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 98 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $103,130 as a midpoint for Pennsylvania, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,990 and the ninetieth is $220,530 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $78,216 take-home in Pennsylvania comes from $103,130. 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 49 of 492.
- Two cautions on $80,221, the adjusted value of that $103,130 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 49 of 492 locally.
- The Pennsylvania median of $103,130 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,990 to $220,530. 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 $78,216, from $103,130, 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 49 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 51 for it.
- This $80,221 adjusted figure, worked from $103,130, 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 49 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 49 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 $126,200, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $49,990 at the bottom tenth to $220,530 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Pennsylvania is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $80,221 in national terms.
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, $78,216 remains.
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 Pennsylvania is $126,200. 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 ($49,990) and the ninetieth ($220,530) 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 $80,221 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 $78,216 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.
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.