Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,334
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$10,086
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,856
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
$62,420
Kept after tax
$52,334
Worth in national money
$53,856
State rank
35
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Texas pays this job a middle wage of $62,420, 35 of 49 states and about 5.12% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Texas reports figures for, this is number 195.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $62,420, take-home of $52,334 is worth roughly $53,856 in national money. The average comes to $70,810, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Texas's $62,420 median for healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other places it 35 of 49 states, about 5.12% 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.
- In Texas's occupational distribution, healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other sits at 195 of 493 — 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.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other, whose median is $62,420, the adjusted figure of $53,856 differs little from $52,334 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $70,810 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 | $35,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,420 |
| Top tenth earn over | $123,910 |
| This salary | $62,420 |
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 | $52,334 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $52,334 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,268 |
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 | $62,420 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,225 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $62,420 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $35,360 and the ninetieth is $123,910 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $52,334, from $62,420, 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 195 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $53,856, the adjusted value of that $62,420 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 195 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $62,420 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $35,360 to $123,910. 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 Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $52,334 from $62,420. 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 195 of 493 locally.
- This $53,856 adjusted figure, worked from $62,420, 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 195 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 195 of 493 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 $70,810 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $35,360 at the bottom tenth to $123,910 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $53,856 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $52,334 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 Texas is $70,810. 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 ($35,360) and the ninetieth ($123,910) 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 $53,856 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 $52,334 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.