Industrial Production Managers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$100,729
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$30,161
23.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$103,658
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
$130,890
Kept after tax
$100,729
Worth in national money
$103,658
State rank
12
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas is one of the better-paying states for industrial production managers. The middle earner takes $130,890, which ranks 12 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 3.83% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Texas. It ranks 27 out of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $130,890 the take-home is $100,729, which is worth about $103,658 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $138,210, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas ranks 12 of 50 states publishing a median for industrial production managers, at $130,890 — about 3.83% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Within Texas, industrial production managers ranks 27 of 493 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for industrial production managers on its $130,890 median: $100,729 retained after tax becomes $103,658 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $138,210 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Industrial Production Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $79,780 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $130,890 |
| Top tenth earn over | $207,880 |
| This salary | $130,890 |
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 | $100,729 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $100,729 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,289 |
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 | $130,890 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$9,520 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
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 industrial production managers in Texas earn under $130,890 and half over. The published range runs $79,780 at the tenth percentile to $207,880 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $100,729, worked from $130,890. 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 27 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $103,658 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 27.
- Figures are distribution medians for industrial production managers in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $79,780 to $207,880; 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.
- The Texas take-home of $100,729, on $130,890 for work ranking 27 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 27 of 493 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $103,658, worked from $130,890, 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 Texas address, on work sitting at 27 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $138,210, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $79,780 and the top tenth $207,880 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $103,658 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $100,729 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $138,210. 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 ($79,780) and the ninetieth ($207,880) 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 $103,658 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 $100,729 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.