Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$95,637
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$27,803
22.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$98,418
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
$123,440
Kept after tax
$95,637
Worth in national money
$98,418
State rank
6
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Texas's middle earner gets $123,440, putting the state 6 of 45 — about 7.19% ahead of the national figure.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Texas. It ranks 34 out of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $123,440, take-home of $95,637 is worth roughly $98,418 in national money. The average comes to $128,830, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors, Texas sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $123,440, ranking 6 of 45 and running about 7.19% 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.
- Within Texas, health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors ranks 34 of 493 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors, whose median is $123,440, the adjusted figure of $98,418 differs little from $95,637 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $128,830 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $82,340 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $123,440 |
| Top tenth earn over | $180,480 |
| This salary | $123,440 |
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 | $95,637 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $95,637 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,972 |
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 | $123,440 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$9,038 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $123,440 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $82,340 and the ninetieth is $180,480 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $95,637, from $123,440, 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 34 of 493 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $98,418 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 34.
- The Texas median of $123,440 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $82,340 to $180,480. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $95,637 from $123,440. 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 34 of 493 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $98,418, worked from $123,440, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Texas address, on work sitting at 34 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 $128,830, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $82,340, the highest tenth $180,480, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $98,418 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $95,637 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 Texas is $128,830. 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 ($82,340) and the ninetieth ($180,480) 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?
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 $98,418 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 $95,637 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.