Healthcare Support Workers, All Other in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,062
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$8,538
17.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,518
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$47,600
Kept after tax
$39,062
Worth in national money
$38,518
State rank
22
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Rhode Island pays healthcare support workers, all other around $47,600 at the midpoint, 22 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Rhode Island, this sits in the middle: 335 of 452 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $47,600, tax leaves $39,062, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $38,518 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $52,100, since top earners drag the number up.
- For healthcare support workers, all other the Rhode Island median is $47,600, ranking 22 of 51 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 support workers, all other ranks 335 of 452 occupations in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for healthcare support workers, all other — median $47,600 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $39,062 retained, $38,518 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $52,100 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Healthcare Support Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,680 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,600 |
| Top tenth earn over | $69,200 |
| This salary | $47,600 |
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 Rhode Island | $39,062 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,427 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,084 |
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 | $45,901 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,730 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
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 support workers, all other in Rhode Island earn under $47,600 and half over. The published range runs $41,680 at the tenth percentile to $69,200 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $39,062 take-home in Rhode Island comes from $47,600. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 335 of 452.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $38,518 uses one figure for the whole of Rhode Island. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 452 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 335.
- Figures are distribution medians for healthcare support workers, all other in Rhode Island, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $41,680 to $69,200; 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.
- Retained pay of $39,062, from $47,600, assumes a single Rhode Island filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 335 of 452 locally, and the state ranks 22 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $38,518, worked from $47,600, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Rhode Island address, on work sitting at 335 of 452 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 $52,100, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $41,680 and the top tenth $69,200, so most people doing this work in Rhode Island sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $38,518 of national purchasing power.
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 Rhode Island's own levy, $39,062 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 Rhode Island is $52,100. 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 ($41,680 to $69,200) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Rhode Island rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $38,518 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 $39,062 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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.