Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping in Montana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,815
after federal, FICA and Montana tax
Tax takes
$9,255
18.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,227
Montana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Montana — 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
$50,070
Kept after tax
$40,815
Worth in national money
$45,227
State rank
21
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Montana is 21 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $50,070. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Montana, this sits in the middle: 285 of 475 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Montana is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $50,070 the take-home is $40,815; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $45,227 would nationally. The average comes to $51,640, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Montana ranks 21 of 51 for human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping at $50,070. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping ranks 285 of 475 occupations in Montana 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.
- Post-tax income for human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping in Montana, on $50,070, is $40,815 — equivalent to $45,227 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 $51,640 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,450 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,070 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,690 |
| This salary | $50,070 |
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 Montana | $40,815 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,411 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,583 |
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 | $48,083 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,914 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $50,070 as a midpoint for Montana, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,450 and the ninetieth is $62,690 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Montana's $40,815, worked from $50,070. 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 285 of 475.
- Two cautions on $45,227, the adjusted value of that $50,070 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Montana. 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 285 of 475 locally.
- The Montana median of $50,070 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,450 to $62,690. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Montana take-home of $40,815, on $50,070 for work ranking 285 of 475 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 285 of 475 in the state.
- This $45,227 adjusted figure, worked from $50,070, 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 285 of 475 in the state. The occupation ranks 285 of 475 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 $51,640, 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?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $38,450 at the tenth percentile, $62,690 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Montana sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $45,227 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Montana's own levy, $40,815 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 Montana is $51,640. 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 ($38,450 to $62,690) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Montana rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Montana'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 $45,227 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 $40,815 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Montana 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.