Lodging Managers in West Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,600
after federal, FICA and West Virginia tax
Tax takes
$15,200
20.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$64,162
West Virginia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in West Virginia — 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
$72,800
Kept after tax
$57,600
Worth in national money
$64,162
State rank
20
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. West Virginia pays lodging managers around $72,800 at the midpoint, 20 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 473 occupations West Virginia reports, lodging managers comes in at 110 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Here is where West Virginia does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $72,800 you keep $57,600, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $64,162 would elsewhere. The average is lower, $72,420, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For lodging managers the West Virginia median is $72,800, ranking 20 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.
- Lodging managers ranks 110 of 473 occupations by median in West Virginia, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- After federal, FICA and West Virginia income tax, retained pay for lodging managers on $72,800 is $57,600. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $64,162 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $72,420 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Lodging Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $72,800 |
| Top tenth earn over | $99,990 |
| This salary | $72,800 |
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 West Virginia | $57,600 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,045 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,372 |
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 | $69,324 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,276 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $72,800 as a midpoint for West Virginia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $44,200 and the ninetieth is $99,990 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind West Virginia's $57,600, worked from $72,800. 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 110 of 473.
- Two cautions on $64,162, the adjusted value of that $72,800 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of West Virginia. 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 110 of 473 locally.
- The West Virginia median of $72,800 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $44,200 to $99,990. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The West Virginia take-home of $57,600, on $72,800 for work ranking 110 of 473 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 110 of 473 in the state.
- This $64,162 adjusted figure, worked from $72,800, 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 110 of 473 in the state. The occupation ranks 110 of 473 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $44,200, the highest tenth $99,990, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. West Virginia is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $64,162 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and West Virginia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $57,600 of this wage survives to your account.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($44,200) and the ninetieth ($99,990) 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?
West Virginia'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 $64,162 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $57,600 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and West Virginia 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.
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.