Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$55,624
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$14,006
20.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,849
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$69,630
Kept after tax
$55,624
Worth in national money
$54,849
State rank
6
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Rhode Island is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $69,630, which ranks 6 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 11.8% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 200 among 452 occupations Rhode Island publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $69,630, tax leaves $55,624, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $54,849 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $75,000, since top earners drag the number up.
- Rhode Island ranks 6 of 50 states publishing a median for life, physical, and social science technicians, all other, at $69,630 — about 11.8% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Position 200 of 452 in Rhode Island places life, physical, and social science technicians, all other in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Because Rhode Island sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for life, physical, and social science technicians, all other — median $69,630 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $55,624 retained, $54,849 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $75,000 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,660 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $69,630 |
| Top tenth earn over | $110,030 |
| This salary | $69,630 |
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 Rhode Island | $55,624 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $57,815 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,646 |
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 | $66,515 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,009 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $69,630 as a midpoint for Rhode Island, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,660 and the ninetieth is $110,030 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Rhode Island the take-home figure of $55,624, from $69,630, 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 200 of 452 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $54,849, the adjusted value of that $69,630 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Rhode Island. 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 200 of 452 locally.
- The Rhode Island median of $69,630 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,660 to $110,030. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Rhode Island is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $55,624 from $69,630. 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 200 of 452 locally.
- This $54,849 adjusted figure, worked from $69,630, 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 200 of 452 in the state. The occupation ranks 200 of 452 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 $75,000, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $49,660 and the top tenth $110,030 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Rhode Island run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $54,849 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Rhode Island's own levy, $55,624 remains.
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 Rhode Island is $75,000. 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 ($49,660) and the ninetieth ($110,030) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $54,849 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $55,624 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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.