Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,013
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$10,007
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,525
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
$62,020
Kept after tax
$52,013
Worth in national money
$53,525
State rank
33
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Texas pays this job a middle wage of $62,020, 33 of 45 states and about 6.2% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 199 among 493 occupations Texas publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $62,020 the take-home is $52,013, which is worth about $53,525 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $70,290, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas's $62,020 median for industrial engineering technologists and technicians places it 33 of 45 states, about 6.2% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Position 199 of 493 in Texas places industrial engineering technologists and technicians in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for industrial engineering technologists and technicians on its $62,020 median: $52,013 retained after tax becomes $53,525 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $70,290 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,650 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,340 |
| This salary | $62,020 |
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 | $52,013 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $52,013 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,248 |
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 | $62,020 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,181 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $62,020. The published range is $45,650 up to $103,340, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $52,013, from $62,020, 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 199 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $53,525, the adjusted value of that $62,020 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 199 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for industrial engineering technologists and technicians in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,650 to $103,340. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $52,013 from $62,020. 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 199 of 493 locally.
- This $53,525 adjusted figure, worked from $62,020, 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 199 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 199 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $70,290 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $45,650 at the bottom tenth to $103,340 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 $53,525 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $52,013 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $70,290. 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 ($45,650) and the ninetieth ($103,340) 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 $53,525 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 $52,013 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.