Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other in Vermont

A stethoscope and folded scrubs in a sunlit clinical workspace.

May 2025 wages · tax year 2026

You keep

$48,024

after federal, FICA and Vermont tax

Tax takes

$11,276

19.0% of the whole

Worth, in national money

$49,696

Vermont costs less than average

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

$59,300

Kept after tax

$48,024

Worth in national money

$49,696

State rank

38

of 49 states

What this pays, and what it is worth

  • Pay for this job is on the low side in Vermont. The middle earner gets $59,300. That is 38 of 49 states, and about 9.86% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
  • Against other work in Vermont, this sits in the middle: 244 of 453 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 $59,300 you keep $48,024 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $49,696 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $69,610, since top earners drag the number up.
  • For healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other, Vermont sits in the lower band at $59,300, ranking 38 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 9.86%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
  • Healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other ranks 244 of 453 occupations in Vermont 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 Vermont is $48,024 after the full tax stack, from $59,300. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $49,696 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $69,610 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

50thpercentile, roughly
Lowest tenth earn under$49,140
Half earn under$59,300
Top tenth earn over$96,520
This salary$59,300

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

Compare with
+$1,803take-home per year in Texas
Take-home in Vermont$48,024
Take-home in Texas$49,828
Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity+$1,580

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

Moving to
$0now · $59,300$57,390
$57,390in Texas, for the same life
To match take-home only$57,056
You could take a cut of−$1,910
Prices in Texas97 vs 97

State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.

Sources and assumptions
  • A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other in Vermont earn under $59,300 and half over. The published range runs $49,140 at the tenth percentile to $96,520 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
  • In Vermont the take-home figure of $48,024, from $59,300, 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 244 of 453 occupations here.
  • Two cautions on $49,696, the adjusted value of that $59,300 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Vermont. 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 244 of 453 locally.
  • Figures are distribution medians for healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other in Vermont, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $49,140 to $96,520; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
  • Take-home for Vermont is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $48,024 from $59,300. 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 244 of 453 locally.
  • This $49,696 adjusted figure, worked from $59,300, 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 244 of 453 in the state. The occupation ranks 244 of 453 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 $69,610 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 $49,140, the highest tenth $96,520, 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 Vermont sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $49,696 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; Vermont then takes its own share, leaving $48,024.

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 Vermont is $69,610. 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 ($49,140) and the ninetieth ($96,520) 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?

Vermont'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 $49,696 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 $48,024 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Vermont 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.