Health Education Specialists in Indiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,233
after federal, FICA and Indiana tax
Tax takes
$10,937
18.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,238
Indiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Indiana — 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
$58,170
Kept after tax
$47,233
Worth in national money
$51,238
State rank
39
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Indiana pays health education specialists a middle wage of $58,170, 39 of 51 states and about 9.21% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Indiana, this sits in the middle: 239 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Indiana does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $58,170 you keep $47,233, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $51,238 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $62,930, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Indiana's $58,170 median for health education specialists places it 39 of 51 states, about 9.21% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Health education specialists ranks 239 of 493 occupations in Indiana 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 federal, FICA and Indiana income tax, retained pay for health education specialists on $58,170 is $47,233. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $51,238 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $62,930 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Health Education Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,130 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,170 |
| Top tenth earn over | $96,010 |
| This salary | $58,170 |
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 Indiana | $47,233 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,920 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$896 |
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 | $56,071 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,084 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $58,170 as a midpoint for Indiana, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,130 and the ninetieth is $96,010 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $47,233 take-home in Indiana comes from $58,170. 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 239 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Indiana, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $51,238, the adjusted value of that $58,170 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 239 of 493 in the state.
- The Indiana median of $58,170 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,130 to $96,010. 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 $47,233, from $58,170, assumes a single Indiana 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 239 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 39 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Indiana, so $51,238 — the adjusted value of that $58,170 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 239 of 493 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 $62,930, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $36,130, the highest tenth $96,010, 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 Indiana sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $51,238 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Indiana adds its own income tax on top — which is why $47,233 of this wage survives to your account.
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 Indiana is $62,930. 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 ($36,130) and the ninetieth ($96,010) 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?
Indiana'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 $51,238 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 $47,233 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Indiana 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.