Legal Support Workers, All Other in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,913
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$10,227
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,451
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
$63,140
Kept after tax
$52,913
Worth in national money
$54,451
State rank
28
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Texas pays legal support workers, all other around $63,140 at the midpoint, 28 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Texas reports figures for, this is number 185.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $63,140, tax leaves $52,913, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $54,451 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $77,980, since top earners drag the number up.
- For legal support workers, all other the Texas median is $63,140, ranking 28 of 45 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.
- In Texas's occupational distribution, legal support workers, all other sits at 185 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for legal support workers, all other — median $63,140 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $52,913 retained, $54,451 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $77,980 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Legal Support Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,650 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,140 |
| Top tenth earn over | $143,580 |
| This salary | $63,140 |
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 | $52,913 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $52,913 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,304 |
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 | $63,140 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,381 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
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 legal support workers, all other in Texas earn under $63,140 and half over. The published range runs $40,650 at the tenth percentile to $143,580 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $52,913, from $63,140, 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 185 of 493 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $54,451, the adjusted value of that $63,140 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 185 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for legal support workers, all other in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $40,650 to $143,580; 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 Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $52,913 from $63,140. 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 185 of 493 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $54,451 — the adjusted value of that $63,140 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 185 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $77,980, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $40,650 at the bottom tenth to $143,580 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $54,451.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $52,913 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 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 Texas is $77,980. 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 ($40,650) and the ninetieth ($143,580) 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?
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 $54,451 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 $52,913 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.
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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.