Manicurists and Pedicurists in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$23,026
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$3,884
14.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$23,812
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$26,910
Kept after tax
$23,026
Worth in national money
$23,812
State rank
48
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Georgia pays manicurists and pedicurists a middle wage of $26,910, 48 of 49 states and about 24.75% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Georgia this is lower-paid work. Of 492 occupations the state publishes figures for, manicurists and pedicurists ranks 486. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $26,910 you keep $23,026 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $23,812 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $32,130, since top earners drag the number up.
- Georgia's $26,910 median for manicurists and pedicurists places it 48 of 49 states, about 24.75% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation Georgia reports, manicurists and pedicurists ranks 486 of 492, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Retained pay in Georgia is $23,026 after the full tax stack, from $26,910. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $23,812 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $32,130 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Manicurists and Pedicurists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $21,390 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $26,910 |
| Top tenth earn over | $56,640 |
| This salary | $26,910 |
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 Georgia | $23,026 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $23,770 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$649 |
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 | $26,007 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$766 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
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 manicurists and pedicurists in Georgia earn under $26,910 and half over. The published range runs $21,390 at the tenth percentile to $56,640 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Georgia's $23,026, worked from $26,910. 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 486 of 492.
- Two cautions on $23,812, the adjusted value of that $26,910 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Georgia. 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 486 of 492 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for manicurists and pedicurists in Georgia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $21,390 to $56,640; 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.
- The Georgia take-home of $23,026, on $26,910 for work ranking 486 of 492 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 486 of 492 in the state.
- This $23,812 adjusted figure, worked from $26,910, 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 486 of 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 486 of 492 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 $32,130, 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 $21,390 and the top tenth $56,640 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $23,812.
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 Georgia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $23,026 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 Georgia is $32,130. 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 ($21,390) and the ninetieth ($56,640) 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?
Georgia'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 $23,812 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 $23,026 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.