Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,343
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$5,197
13.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,284
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
$37,540
Kept after tax
$32,343
Worth in national money
$33,284
State rank
42
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Texas pays this job a middle wage of $37,540, 42 of 51 states and about 6.71% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Texas this is lower-paid work. Of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 413. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $37,540, take-home of $32,343 is worth roughly $33,284 in national money. The average comes to $39,400, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Texas's $37,540 median for laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand places it 42 of 51 states, about 6.71% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation Texas reports, laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ranks 413 of 493, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand, whose median is $37,540, the adjusted figure of $33,284 differs little from $32,343 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $39,400 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $29,250 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,540 |
| Top tenth earn over | $50,140 |
| This salary | $37,540 |
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 | $32,343 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $32,343 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,020 |
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 | $37,540 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,600 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $37,540 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $29,250 and the ninetieth is $50,140 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $32,343 take-home in Texas comes from $37,540. 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 413 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $33,284 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 413.
- The Texas median of $37,540 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $29,250 to $50,140. 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 $32,343, from $37,540, assumes a single Texas 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 413 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 42 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $33,284, worked from $37,540, 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 Texas address, on work sitting at 413 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $39,400 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $29,250 at the tenth percentile, $50,140 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 $33,284.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $32,343 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 Texas is $39,400. 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 ($29,250 to $50,140) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
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 $33,284 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 $32,343 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.