Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,244
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$13,166
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,871
Virginia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Virginia — 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
$63,410
Kept after tax
$50,244
Worth in national money
$49,871
State rank
28
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Virginia pays this job around $63,410 at the midpoint, 28 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Virginia, this sits in the middle: 213 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $63,410, tax leaves $50,244, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $49,871 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $77,730, since top earners drag the number up.
- For healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other the Virginia median is $63,410, ranking 28 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other ranks 213 of 489 occupations in Virginia 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.
- Because Virginia sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other — median $63,410 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $50,244 retained, $49,871 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $77,730 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 | $37,880 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,410 |
| Top tenth earn over | $144,680 |
| This salary | $63,410 |
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 Virginia | $50,244 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,130 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,804 |
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 | $59,819 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,809 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $63,410 as a midpoint for Virginia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,880 and the ninetieth is $144,680 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Virginia the take-home figure of $50,244, from $63,410, 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 213 of 489 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Virginia, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $49,871, the adjusted value of that $63,410 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 213 of 489 in the state.
- The Virginia median of $63,410 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,880 to $144,680. 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 Virginia is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $50,244 from $63,410. 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 213 of 489 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Virginia, so $49,871 — the adjusted value of that $63,410 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 213 of 489 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 $77,730, 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $37,880 and the top tenth $144,680 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Virginia run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $49,871 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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; Virginia then takes its own share, leaving $50,244.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Virginia is $77,730. 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 ($37,880) and the ninetieth ($144,680) 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?
Virginia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $49,871 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 $50,244 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Virginia 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.