Helpers--Electricians in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,823
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$6,537
14.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,923
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
$44,360
Kept after tax
$37,823
Worth in national money
$38,923
State rank
19
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Texas is 19 of 47 states for helpers--electricians, with a middle wage of $44,360. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 356 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $44,360, take-home of $37,823 is worth roughly $38,923 in national money. The average lands at $44,270, below the middle of the range.
- Texas ranks 19 of 47 for helpers--electricians at $44,360. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Helpers--electricians ranks 356 of 493 occupations in Texas 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.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for helpers--electricians, whose median is $44,360, the adjusted figure of $38,923 differs little from $37,823 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $44,270 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Helpers--Electricians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,900 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $44,360 |
| Top tenth earn over | $57,540 |
| This salary | $44,360 |
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 | $37,823 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $37,823 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,362 |
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 | $44,360 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,041 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $44,360 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $34,900 and the ninetieth is $57,540 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $37,823 take-home in Texas comes from $44,360. 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 356 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $38,923, the adjusted value of that $44,360 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 356 of 493 in the state.
- The Texas median of $44,360 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $34,900 to $57,540. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $37,823, from $44,360, assumes a single Texas 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 356 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 19 of 47 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $38,923 — the adjusted value of that $44,360 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 356 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $34,900 and the top tenth $57,540, so most people doing this work in Texas sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $38,923 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $37,823 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,900 to $57,540) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
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 $38,923 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 $37,823 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.
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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.