Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan in Arkansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,114
after federal, FICA and Arkansas tax
Tax takes
$6,036
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,967
Arkansas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arkansas — 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
$37,150
Kept after tax
$31,114
Worth in national money
$35,967
State rank
46
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Arkansas is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $37,150, ranking 46 of 50 states — about 19.1% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Measured against other jobs in Arkansas, this one sits low: 380 of 489 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $37,150 you keep $31,114 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $35,967 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $39,080, since top earners drag the number up.
- Arkansas ranks 46 of 50 for interviewers, except eligibility and loan, with a median of $37,150 — about 19.1% 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.
- Interviewers, except eligibility and loan occupies position 380 of 489 in Arkansas's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- Retained pay in Arkansas is $31,114 after the full tax stack, from $37,150. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $35,967 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $39,080 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,170 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $48,370 |
| This salary | $37,150 |
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 Arkansas | $31,114 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,030 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,006 |
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 | $36,010 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,635 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $37,150 as a midpoint for Arkansas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,170 and the ninetieth is $48,370 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $31,114 take-home in Arkansas comes from $37,150. 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 380 of 489.
- Two cautions on $35,967, the adjusted value of that $37,150 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Arkansas. 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 380 of 489 locally.
- The Arkansas median of $37,150 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,170 to $48,370. 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 $31,114, from $37,150, assumes a single Arkansas 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 380 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 46 of 50 for it.
- This $35,967 adjusted figure, worked from $37,150, 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 380 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 380 of 489 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 $39,080, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $31,170 at the tenth percentile, $48,370 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Arkansas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $35,967 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 Arkansas adds its own income tax on top — which is why $31,114 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 50 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 Arkansas is $39,080. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($31,170 to $48,370) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Arkansas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Arkansas'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 $35,967 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 $31,114 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arkansas 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.