Library Technicians in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,227
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$5,413
14.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,193
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
$38,640
Kept after tax
$33,227
Worth in national money
$34,193
State rank
32
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Texas pays library technicians around $38,640 at the midpoint, 32 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 493 occupations Texas publishes, library technicians lands at 400. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $38,640, tax leaves $33,227, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $34,193 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $39,680, since top earners drag the number up.
- For library technicians the Texas median is $38,640, ranking 32 of 51 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.
- Within Texas, this work ranks 400 of 493 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for library technicians — median $38,640 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $33,227 retained, $34,193 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $39,680 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Library Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,840 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $38,640 |
| Top tenth earn over | $49,210 |
| This salary | $38,640 |
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 | $33,227 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $33,227 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,075 |
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 | $38,640 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,671 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $38,640. The published range is $28,840 up to $49,210, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $33,227, from $38,640, 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 400 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $34,193, the adjusted value of that $38,640 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 400 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for library technicians in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $28,840 to $49,210. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $33,227 from $38,640. 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 400 of 493 locally.
- This $34,193 adjusted figure, worked from $38,640, 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 400 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 400 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $28,840 at the bottom tenth to $49,210 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Texas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $34,193 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $33,227 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($28,840 to $49,210) 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 $34,193 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 $33,227 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.