Lodging Managers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,997
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$10,003
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,509
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
$62,000
Kept after tax
$51,997
Worth in national money
$53,509
State rank
39
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for lodging managers is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $62,000. That is 39 of 51 states, and about 10.47% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 200 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $62,000, take-home of $51,997 is worth roughly $53,509 in national money. The average comes to $72,150, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For lodging managers, Texas sits in the lower band at $62,000, ranking 39 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 10.47%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Lodging managers ranks 200 of 493 occupations in Texas by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for lodging managers, whose median is $62,000, the adjusted figure of $53,509 differs little from $51,997 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $72,150 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Lodging Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,670 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $126,610 |
| This salary | $62,000 |
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 | $51,997 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $51,997 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,247 |
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 | $62,000 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$4,180 |
| 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 $62,000. The published range is $31,670 up to $126,610, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $51,997, worked from $62,000. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 200 of 493.
- Two cautions on $53,509, the adjusted value of that $62,000 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 200 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for lodging managers in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $31,670 to $126,610. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Texas take-home of $51,997, on $62,000 for work ranking 200 of 493 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 200 of 493 in the state.
- This $53,509 adjusted figure, worked from $62,000, 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 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 200 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 $72,150, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $31,670 and the top tenth $126,610 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $53,509 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $51,997 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?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $72,150. 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 ($31,670) and the ninetieth ($126,610) 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 $53,509 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 $51,997 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.