Logisticians in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$84,280
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$22,970
21.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$77,633
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$107,250
Kept after tax
$84,280
Worth in national money
$77,633
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Washington pays logisticians a middle wage of $107,250, ranking 1 of 51 states and sitting about 30.28% above the national middle.
- Within Washington this is well-paid work. Of 493 occupations with published figures in the state, logisticians ranks 88 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Washington is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $107,250 the take-home is $84,280; in national-average money that behaves like $77,633. The average comes to $112,700, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Washington's median for logisticians is $107,250, about 30.28% above the national figure and 1 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Ranked against every occupation Washington publishes a median for, logisticians sits 88 of 493 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Take-home for logisticians in Washington, on $107,250, is $84,280; deflated by the state's price level, $77,633. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $112,700 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Logisticians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $68,860 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $107,250 |
| Top tenth earn over | $163,950 |
| This salary | $107,250 |
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 Washington | $84,280 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $84,280 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,097 |
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 | $107,250 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$12,566 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Washington earn less than $107,250. The published range is $68,860 up to $163,950, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Washington the take-home figure of $84,280, from $107,250, 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 88 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $77,633, the adjusted value of that $107,250 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. 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 88 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for logisticians in Washington the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $68,860 to $163,950. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Washington is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $84,280 from $107,250. 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 88 of 493 locally.
- This $77,633 adjusted figure, worked from $107,250, 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 88 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 88 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $112,700 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $68,860 and the top tenth $163,950 — 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 Washington run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $77,633 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $84,280 of this wage reaches your account, because Washington takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 Washington is $112,700. 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 ($68,860) and the ninetieth ($163,950) 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?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $77,633 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $84,280 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.