Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan in West Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,560
after federal, FICA and West Virginia tax
Tax takes
$5,920
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,041
West Virginia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in West Virginia — 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
$36,480
Kept after tax
$30,560
Worth in national money
$34,041
State rank
47
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in West Virginia. The middle earner gets $36,480. That is 47 of 50 states, and about 20.56% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 473 occupations West Virginia publishes, this job lands at 377. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $36,480 you keep $30,560 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $34,041 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $36,510, since top earners drag the number up.
- For interviewers, except eligibility and loan, West Virginia sits in the lower band at $36,480, ranking 47 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 20.56%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within West Virginia, this work ranks 377 of 473 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Retained pay in West Virginia is $30,560 after the full tax stack, from $36,480. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $34,041 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $36,510 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 | $29,730 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $36,480 |
| Top tenth earn over | $44,030 |
| This salary | $36,480 |
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 West Virginia | $30,560 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $31,492 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,634 |
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 | $35,320 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,976 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
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 interviewers, except eligibility and loan in West Virginia earn under $36,480 and half over. The published range runs $29,730 at the tenth percentile to $44,030 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $30,560 take-home in West Virginia comes from $36,480. 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 377 of 473.
- Two cautions on $34,041, the adjusted value of that $36,480 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of West Virginia. 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 377 of 473 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for interviewers, except eligibility and loan in West Virginia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $29,730 to $44,030; 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 $30,560, from $36,480, assumes a single West Virginia 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 377 of 473 locally, and the state ranks 47 of 50 for it.
- This $34,041 adjusted figure, worked from $36,480, 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 377 of 473 in the state. The occupation ranks 377 of 473 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $29,730 at the tenth percentile, $44,030 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $34,041.
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; West Virginia then takes its own share, leaving $30,560.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($29,730 to $44,030) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to West Virginia rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
West Virginia'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 $34,041 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 $30,560 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and West Virginia 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.