Healthcare Social Workers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,068
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$11,922
17.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$59,756
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
$69,990
Kept after tax
$58,068
Worth in national money
$59,756
State rank
19
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas sits in the middle of the pack for healthcare social workers. The median is $69,990, ranking 19 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Texas reports figures for, this is number 158.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $69,990, tax leaves $58,068, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $59,756 in comparable terms. Average and middle land in the same place, $69,990.
- Texas occupies the middle band for healthcare social workers: a median of $69,990, ranking 19 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- In Texas's occupational distribution, healthcare social workers sits at 158 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for healthcare social workers — median $69,990 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $58,068 retained, $59,756 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. The mean equals the median at $69,990 — no skew either way in the published band.
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Pay band: Healthcare Social Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,210 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $69,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $98,150 |
| This salary | $69,990 |
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 | $58,068 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $58,068 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,626 |
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 | $69,990 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,332 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 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 social workers in Texas earn under $69,990 and half over. The published range runs $40,210 at the tenth percentile to $98,150 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $58,068, worked from $69,990. 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 158 of 493.
- Two cautions on $59,756, the adjusted value of that $69,990 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 158 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for healthcare social workers in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $40,210 to $98,150; 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.
- The Texas take-home of $58,068, on $69,990 for work ranking 158 of 493 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 158 of 493 in the state.
- This $59,756 adjusted figure, worked from $69,990, 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 158 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 158 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $40,210 at the bottom tenth to $98,150 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 $59,756 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $58,068 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($40,210) and the ninetieth ($98,150) 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 $59,756 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 $58,068 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.