Health Education Specialists in Wisconsin
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,976
after federal, FICA and Wisconsin tax
Tax takes
$16,064
21.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$62,275
Wisconsin costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Wisconsin — 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
$74,040
Kept after tax
$57,976
Worth in national money
$62,275
State rank
11
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for health education specialists is strong here. Wisconsin's middle earner gets $74,040, putting the state 11 of 51 — about 15.56% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Wisconsin, this sits in the middle: 156 of 491 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Wisconsin is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $74,040 the take-home is $57,976; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $62,275 would nationally. The average lands at $73,630, below the middle of the range.
- For health education specialists, Wisconsin sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $74,040, ranking 11 of 51 and running about 15.56% 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.
- Health education specialists ranks 156 of 491 occupations in Wisconsin 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.
- Post-tax income for health education specialists in Wisconsin, on $74,040, is $57,976 — equivalent to $62,275 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $73,630 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Health Education Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,710 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,040 |
| Top tenth earn over | $96,940 |
| This salary | $74,040 |
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 Wisconsin | $57,976 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,917 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$413 |
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 | $69,860 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$570 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $74,040 as a midpoint for Wisconsin, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $50,710 and the ninetieth is $96,940 — 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 Wisconsin's $57,976, worked from $74,040. 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 156 of 491.
- Two cautions on $62,275, the adjusted value of that $74,040 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Wisconsin. 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 156 of 491 locally.
- The Wisconsin median of $74,040 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $50,710 to $96,940. 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 Wisconsin take-home of $57,976, on $74,040 for work ranking 156 of 491 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 156 of 491 in the state.
- This $62,275 adjusted figure, worked from $74,040, 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 156 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 156 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $50,710 and the top tenth $96,940, so most people doing this work in Wisconsin 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 $62,275.
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 Wisconsin adds its own income tax on top — which is why $57,976 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($50,710 to $96,940) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Wisconsin rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Wisconsin'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 $62,275 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 $57,976 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Wisconsin 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.