Human Resources Managers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$104,564
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$31,936
23.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$107,604
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
$136,500
Kept after tax
$104,564
Worth in national money
$107,604
State rank
22
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Texas pays human resources managers around $136,500 at the midpoint, 22 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Texas reports, human resources managers comes in at 17 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $136,500, tax leaves $104,564, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $107,604 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $151,070, since top earners drag the number up.
- For human resources managers the Texas median is $136,500, 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.
- Human resources managers ranks 17 of 493 occupations by median in Texas, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for human resources managers — median $136,500 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $104,564 retained, $107,604 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $151,070 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Human Resources Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $83,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $136,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $226,050 |
| This salary | $136,500 |
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 | $104,564 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $104,564 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,529 |
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 | $136,500 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$9,882 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $136,500 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $83,200 and the ninetieth is $226,050 — 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 Texas's $104,564, worked from $136,500. 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 17 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $107,604, the adjusted value of that $136,500 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 17 of 493 in the state.
- The Texas median of $136,500 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $83,200 to $226,050. 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 Texas take-home of $104,564, on $136,500 for work ranking 17 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 17 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $107,604 — the adjusted value of that $136,500 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 17 of 493 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 $151,070, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $83,200 at the bottom tenth to $226,050 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 $107,604 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $104,564 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 Texas is $151,070. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($83,200) and the ninetieth ($226,050) 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 $107,604 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 $104,564 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.