Logisticians in Indiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,209
after federal, FICA and Indiana tax
Tax takes
$16,461
21.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$66,399
Indiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Indiana — 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
$77,670
Kept after tax
$61,209
Worth in national money
$66,399
State rank
36
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for logisticians is on the low side in Indiana. The middle earner gets $77,670. That is 36 of 51 states, and about 5.65% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Indiana reports, logisticians comes in at 120 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $77,670 you keep $61,209 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $66,399 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $82,220, since top earners drag the number up.
- For logisticians, Indiana sits in the lower band at $77,670, ranking 36 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 5.65%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Logisticians ranks 120 of 493 occupations by median in Indiana, 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.
- Retained pay in Indiana is $61,209 after the full tax stack, from $77,670. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $66,399 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $82,220 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Logisticians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,310 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $122,910 |
| This salary | $77,670 |
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 Indiana | $61,209 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,471 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,083 |
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 | $74,455 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,496 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
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 logisticians in Indiana earn under $77,670 and half over. The published range runs $49,310 at the tenth percentile to $122,910 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Indiana the take-home figure of $61,209, from $77,670, 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 120 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $66,399, the adjusted value of that $77,670 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Indiana. 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 120 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for logisticians in Indiana, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $49,310 to $122,910; 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 Indiana is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $61,209 from $77,670. 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 120 of 493 locally.
- This $66,399 adjusted figure, worked from $77,670, 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 120 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 120 of 493 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 $82,220, 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $49,310 at the bottom tenth to $122,910 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Indiana sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $66,399 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Indiana's own levy, $61,209 remains.
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 Indiana is $82,220. 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 ($49,310) and the ninetieth ($122,910) 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?
Indiana'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 $66,399 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 $61,209 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Indiana 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.