Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,957
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$13,623
23.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,976
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$57,580
Kept after tax
$43,957
Worth in national money
$41,976
State rank
2
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Oregon's middle earner gets $57,580, putting the state 2 of 50 — about 60.88% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Oregon, this sits in the middle: 299 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $57,580, tax leaves $43,957 — and because Oregon is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $41,976 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $57,220.
- For hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists, Oregon sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $57,580, ranking 2 of 50 and running about 60.88% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists ranks 299 of 489 occupations in Oregon 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 tax, $43,957 remains from the Oregon median of $57,580 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $41,976 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $57,220 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,880 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,580 |
| Top tenth earn over | $76,810 |
| This salary | $57,580 |
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 Oregon | $43,957 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,446 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,878 |
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 | $51,994 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,528 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $57,580 as a midpoint for Oregon, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $34,880 and the ninetieth is $76,810 — 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 Oregon's $43,957, worked from $57,580. 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 299 of 489.
- One number stands for prices across all of Oregon, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $41,976, the adjusted value of that $57,580 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 299 of 489 in the state.
- The Oregon median of $57,580 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $34,880 to $76,810. 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 Oregon take-home of $43,957, on $57,580 for work ranking 299 of 489 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 299 of 489 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Oregon, so $41,976 — the adjusted value of that $57,580 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 299 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $34,880, the highest tenth $76,810, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Oregon costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $41,976 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Oregon then takes its own share, leaving $43,957.
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 ($34,880) and the ninetieth ($76,810) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $41,976 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $43,957 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.