Insurance Underwriters in Mississippi
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,509
after federal, FICA and Mississippi tax
Tax takes
$11,741
19.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,426
Mississippi costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Mississippi — 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
$59,250
Kept after tax
$47,509
Worth in national money
$54,426
State rank
49
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Mississippi is among the lower-paying states for insurance underwriters. The middle earner takes $59,250, ranking 49 of 49 states — about 27.18% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Insurance underwriters ranks 165 among 486 occupations Mississippi publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $59,250 you keep $47,509 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $54,426 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $63,890, since top earners drag the number up.
- Mississippi ranks 49 of 49 for insurance underwriters, with a median of $59,250 — about 27.18% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Position 165 of 486 in Mississippi places insurance underwriters 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.
- Retained pay in Mississippi is $47,509 after the full tax stack, from $59,250. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $54,426 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $63,890 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Insurance Underwriters
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,250 |
| Top tenth earn over | $100,710 |
| This salary | $59,250 |
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 Mississippi | $47,509 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,787 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,191 |
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 | $56,415 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,859 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
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 insurance underwriters in Mississippi earn under $59,250 and half over. The published range runs $38,520 at the tenth percentile to $100,710 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $47,509 take-home in Mississippi comes from $59,250. 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 165 of 486.
- Two cautions on $54,426, the adjusted value of that $59,250 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Mississippi. 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 165 of 486 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for insurance underwriters in Mississippi, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $38,520 to $100,710; 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.
- Retained pay of $47,509, from $59,250, assumes a single Mississippi 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 165 of 486 locally, and the state ranks 49 of 49 for it.
- This $54,426 adjusted figure, worked from $59,250, 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 165 of 486 in the state. The occupation ranks 165 of 486 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 $63,890, 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 $38,520 at the bottom tenth to $100,710 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 Mississippi sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $54,426 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Mississippi adds its own income tax on top — which is why $47,509 of this wage survives to your account.
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 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Mississippi is $63,890. 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 ($38,520) and the ninetieth ($100,710) 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?
Mississippi'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 $54,426 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $47,509 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Mississippi 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.