Interpreters and Translators in Ohio
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,411
after federal, FICA and Ohio tax
Tax takes
$10,819
17.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,907
Ohio costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Ohio — 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
$61,230
Kept after tax
$50,411
Worth in national money
$54,907
State rank
19
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Ohio pays interpreters and translators around $61,230 at the midpoint, 19 of 47 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Ohio, this sits in the middle: 220 of 494 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Ohio is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $61,230 the take-home is $50,411; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $54,907 would nationally. The average comes to $63,530, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For interpreters and translators the Ohio median is $61,230, ranking 19 of 47 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Interpreters and translators ranks 220 of 494 occupations in Ohio by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Post-tax income for interpreters and translators in Ohio, on $61,230, is $50,411 — equivalent to $54,907 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $63,530 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Interpreters and Translators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $91,920 |
| This salary | $61,230 |
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 Ohio | $50,411 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,378 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,035 |
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 | $60,026 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,461 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
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 interpreters and translators in Ohio earn under $61,230 and half over. The published range runs $39,300 at the tenth percentile to $91,920 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Ohio the take-home figure of $50,411, from $61,230, 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 220 of 494 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $54,907 uses one figure for the whole of Ohio. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 494 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 220.
- Figures are distribution medians for interpreters and translators in Ohio, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $39,300 to $91,920; 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.
- Take-home for Ohio is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $50,411 from $61,230. 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 220 of 494 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $54,907, worked from $61,230, 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 Ohio address, on work sitting at 220 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $63,530, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $39,300, the highest tenth $91,920, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Ohio sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $54,907 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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; Ohio then takes its own share, leaving $50,411.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 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 Ohio is $63,530. 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 ($39,300) and the ninetieth ($91,920) 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?
Ohio'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 $54,907 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 $50,411 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Ohio 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.