Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary in Alabama
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$69,893
after federal, FICA and Alabama tax
Tax takes
$22,417
24.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$77,685
Alabama costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Alabama — 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
$92,310
Kept after tax
$69,893
Worth in national money
$77,685
State rank
36
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Alabama pays this job a middle wage of $92,310, 36 of 50 states and about 13.98% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Alabama this is well-paid work. Of 482 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 70 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Here is where Alabama does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $92,310 you keep $69,893, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $77,685 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $110,670, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Alabama's $92,310 median for health specialties teachers, postsecondary places it 36 of 50 states, about 13.98% 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.
- Ranked against every occupation Alabama publishes a median for, health specialties teachers, postsecondary sits 70 of 482 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- After federal, FICA and Alabama income tax, retained pay for health specialties teachers, postsecondary on $92,310 is $69,893. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $77,685 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 $110,670 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $58,540 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $92,310 |
| Top tenth earn over | $202,190 |
| This salary | $92,310 |
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 Alabama | $69,893 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $73,770 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,771 |
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 | $86,800 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,446 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $92,310 as a midpoint for Alabama, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $58,540 and the ninetieth is $202,190 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Alabama the take-home figure of $69,893, from $92,310, 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 70 of 482 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $77,685, the adjusted value of that $92,310 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Alabama. 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 70 of 482 locally.
- The Alabama median of $92,310 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $58,540 to $202,190. 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 Alabama is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $69,893 from $92,310. 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 70 of 482 locally.
- This $77,685 adjusted figure, worked from $92,310, 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 70 of 482 in the state. The occupation ranks 70 of 482 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $110,670 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $58,540 and the top tenth $202,190 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $77,685.
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; Alabama then takes its own share, leaving $69,893.
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.
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 Alabama is $110,670. 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 ($58,540) and the ninetieth ($202,190) 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?
Alabama'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 $77,685 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 $69,893 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Alabama 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.