Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other in New Jersey
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,009
after federal, FICA and New Jersey tax
Tax takes
$16,561
21.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,114
New Jersey costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New Jersey — 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
$76,570
Kept after tax
$60,009
Worth in national money
$55,114
State rank
14
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. New Jersey's middle earner gets $76,570, putting the state 14 of 49 — about 16.39% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 490 occupations New Jersey reports figures for, this is number 214.
- New Jersey is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $76,570 the take-home is $60,009; in national-average money that behaves like $55,114. The average comes to $82,780, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other, New Jersey sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $76,570, ranking 14 of 49 and running about 16.39% 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.
- In New Jersey's occupational distribution, healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other sits at 214 of 490 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Take-home for healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other in New Jersey, on $76,570, is $60,009; deflated by the state's price level, $55,114. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $82,780 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,840 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $76,570 |
| Top tenth earn over | $134,420 |
| This salary | $76,570 |
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 New Jersey | $60,009 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $62,697 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,406 |
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 | $72,750 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$12,629 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $76,570 as a midpoint for New Jersey, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $48,840 and the ninetieth is $134,420 — 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 New Jersey's $60,009, worked from $76,570. 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 214 of 490.
- Two cautions on $55,114, the adjusted value of that $76,570 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New Jersey. 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 214 of 490 locally.
- The New Jersey median of $76,570 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $48,840 to $134,420. 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 New Jersey take-home of $60,009, on $76,570 for work ranking 214 of 490 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 214 of 490 in the state.
- This $55,114 adjusted figure, worked from $76,570, 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 214 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 214 of 490 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 $82,780 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 $48,840, the highest tenth $134,420, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New Jersey costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $55,114 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and New Jersey's own levy, $60,009 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 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 New Jersey is $82,780. 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 ($48,840) and the ninetieth ($134,420) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New Jersey's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $55,114 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $60,009 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New Jersey 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.