Information Security Analysts in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$100,046
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$29,844
23.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$102,954
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
$129,890
Kept after tax
$100,046
Worth in national money
$102,954
State rank
15
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $129,890, which ranks 15 of 48 states with published figures. That is about 0.55% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Texas. It ranks 29 out of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $129,890, tax leaves $100,046, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $102,954 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $130,710, since top earners drag the number up.
- Texas ranks 15 of 48 states publishing a median for information security analysts, at $129,890 — about 0.55% 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, information security analysts ranks 29 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for information security analysts — median $129,890 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $100,046 retained, $102,954 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $130,710 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Information Security Analysts
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $77,990 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $129,890 |
| Top tenth earn over | $178,550 |
| This salary | $129,890 |
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 | $100,046 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $100,046 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,247 |
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 | $129,890 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$9,455 |
| 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 $129,890. The published range is $77,990 up to $178,550, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $100,046, from $129,890, 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 29 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $102,954, the adjusted value of that $129,890 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 29 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for information security analysts in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $77,990 to $178,550. 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 $100,046 from $129,890. 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 29 of 493 locally.
- This $102,954 adjusted figure, worked from $129,890, 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 29 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 29 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $77,990, the highest tenth $178,550, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Texas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $102,954 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $100,046 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($77,990) and the ninetieth ($178,550) 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 $102,954 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 $100,046 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.