Information and Record Clerks, All Other in Massachusetts
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,065
after federal, FICA and Massachusetts tax
Tax takes
$9,135
19.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,168
Massachusetts costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Massachusetts — 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
$47,200
Kept after tax
$38,065
Worth in national money
$35,168
State rank
36
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Massachusetts pays this job a middle wage of $47,200, 36 of 50 states and about 4.65% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Massachusetts this is lower-paid work. Of 485 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 392. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Massachusetts is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $47,200 the take-home is $38,065; in national-average money that behaves like $35,168. The average comes to $47,620, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Massachusetts's $47,200 median for information and record clerks, all other places it 36 of 50 states, about 4.65% 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.
- Against every occupation Massachusetts reports, information and record clerks, all other ranks 392 of 485, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Take-home for information and record clerks, all other in Massachusetts, on $47,200, is $38,065; deflated by the state's price level, $35,168. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $47,620 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Information and Record Clerks, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,200 |
| Top tenth earn over | $67,890 |
| This salary | $47,200 |
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 Massachusetts | $38,065 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,105 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,103 |
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 | $44,661 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,381 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $47,200 as a midpoint for Massachusetts, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,200 and the ninetieth is $67,890 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $38,065 take-home in Massachusetts comes from $47,200. 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 392 of 485.
- One number stands for prices across all of Massachusetts, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $35,168, the adjusted value of that $47,200 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 392 of 485 in the state.
- The Massachusetts median of $47,200 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,200 to $67,890. 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 $38,065, from $47,200, assumes a single Massachusetts 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 392 of 485 locally, and the state ranks 36 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Massachusetts, so $35,168 — the adjusted value of that $47,200 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 392 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $31,200, the highest tenth $67,890, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Massachusetts run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $35,168 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Massachusetts then takes its own share, leaving $38,065.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($31,200) and the ninetieth ($67,890) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Massachusetts's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $35,168 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $38,065 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Massachusetts 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.
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.