Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other in Louisiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,482
after federal, FICA and Louisiana tax
Tax takes
$11,758
18.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,274
Louisiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Louisiana — 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
$63,240
Kept after tax
$51,482
Worth in national money
$58,274
State rank
30
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Louisiana is 30 of 49 states for this job, with a middle wage of $63,240. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Louisiana, this sits in the middle: 150 of 484 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $63,240 you keep $51,482 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $58,274 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $67,940, since top earners drag the number up.
- Louisiana ranks 30 of 49 for healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other at $63,240. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other ranks 150 of 484 occupations in Louisiana 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.
- Retained pay in Louisiana is $51,482 after the full tax stack, from $63,240. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $58,274 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $67,940 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,910 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,240 |
| Top tenth earn over | $97,440 |
| This salary | $63,240 |
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 Louisiana | $51,482 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,993 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,740 |
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 | $61,360 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,703 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 88 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $63,240 as a midpoint for Louisiana, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $39,910 and the ninetieth is $97,440 — 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 Louisiana's $51,482, worked from $63,240. 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 150 of 484.
- One number stands for prices across all of Louisiana, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $58,274, the adjusted value of that $63,240 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 150 of 484 in the state.
- The Louisiana median of $63,240 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $39,910 to $97,440. 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 Louisiana take-home of $51,482, on $63,240 for work ranking 150 of 484 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 150 of 484 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Louisiana, so $58,274 — the adjusted value of that $63,240 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 150 of 484 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 $67,940 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $39,910, the highest tenth $97,440, 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 Louisiana sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $58,274 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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; Louisiana then takes its own share, leaving $51,482.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 Louisiana is $67,940. 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 ($39,910) and the ninetieth ($97,440) 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?
Louisiana'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 $58,274 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 $51,482 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Louisiana 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.