Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$84,914
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$23,236
21.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$87,382
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
$108,150
Kept after tax
$84,914
Worth in national money
$87,382
State rank
16
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $108,150, which ranks 16 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 0.78% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Texas reports, this job comes in at 46 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $108,150, take-home of $84,914 is worth roughly $87,382 in national money. The average comes to $159,640, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Texas ranks 16 of 50 states publishing a median for health specialties teachers, postsecondary, at $108,150 — about 0.78% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Health specialties teachers, postsecondary ranks 46 of 493 occupations by median in Texas, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for health specialties teachers, postsecondary, whose median is $108,150, the adjusted figure of $87,382 differs little from $84,914 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $159,640 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $61,390 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $108,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $350,500 |
| This salary | $108,150 |
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 | $84,914 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $84,914 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,302 |
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 | $108,150 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$7,797 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $108,150 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $61,390 and the ninetieth is $350,500 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $84,914 take-home in Texas comes from $108,150. 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 46 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $87,382 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 46.
- The Texas median of $108,150 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $61,390 to $350,500. 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 $84,914, from $108,150, assumes a single Texas 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 46 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 16 of 50 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $87,382, worked from $108,150, 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 46 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 $159,640, 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 $61,390, the highest tenth $350,500, 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 $87,382 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $84,914 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $159,640. 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 ($61,390) and the ninetieth ($350,500) 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 $87,382 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 $84,914 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.