Healthcare Support Workers, All Other in Iowa
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,025
after federal, FICA and Iowa tax
Tax takes
$7,695
17.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,710
Iowa costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Iowa — 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
$44,720
Kept after tax
$37,025
Worth in national money
$41,710
State rank
38
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for healthcare support workers, all other is on the low side in Iowa. The middle earner gets $44,720. That is 38 of 51 states, and about 7.66% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Iowa publishes, healthcare support workers, all other lands at 377. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Iowa is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $44,720 the take-home is $37,025; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $41,710 would nationally. The average comes to $46,950, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For healthcare support workers, all other, Iowa sits in the lower band at $44,720, ranking 38 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 7.66%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Iowa, this work ranks 377 of 493 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Post-tax income for healthcare support workers, all other in Iowa, on $44,720, is $37,025 — equivalent to $41,710 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $46,950 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Healthcare Support Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,420 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $44,720 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,610 |
| This salary | $44,720 |
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 Iowa | $37,025 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,113 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,490 |
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 | $43,366 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,011 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 89 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $44,720 as a midpoint for Iowa, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,420 and the ninetieth is $61,610 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Iowa the take-home figure of $37,025, from $44,720, 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 377 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $41,710, the adjusted value of that $44,720 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Iowa. 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 377 of 493 locally.
- The Iowa median of $44,720 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,420 to $61,610. 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 Iowa is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $37,025 from $44,720. 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 377 of 493 locally.
- This $41,710 adjusted figure, worked from $44,720, 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 377 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 377 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $46,950, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $33,420 and the top tenth $61,610, so most people doing this work in Iowa sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Iowa is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $41,710 in national terms.
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 Iowa's own levy, $37,025 remains.
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.
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 Iowa is $46,950. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($33,420 to $61,610) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Iowa rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Iowa'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 $41,710 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 $37,025 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Iowa 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.
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.