Marketing Managers in Montana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$116,446
after federal, FICA and Montana tax
Tax takes
$49,134
29.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$129,034
Montana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Montana — 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
$165,580
Kept after tax
$116,446
Worth in national money
$129,034
State rank
12
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Montana is one of the better-paying states for marketing managers. The middle earner takes $165,580, which ranks 12 of 48 states with published figures. That is about 0.73% above the national middle.
- Within Montana this is well-paid work. Of 475 occupations with published figures in the state, marketing managers ranks 6 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $165,580 you keep $116,446 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $129,034 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $170,770, since top earners drag the number up.
- Montana ranks 12 of 48 states publishing a median for marketing managers, at $165,580 — about 0.73% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Ranked against every occupation Montana publishes a median for, marketing managers sits 6 of 475 — 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.
- Retained pay in Montana is $116,446 after the full tax stack, from $165,580. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $129,034 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $170,770 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Marketing Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $90,670 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $165,580 |
| Top tenth earn over | $212,760 |
| This salary | $165,580 |
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 Montana | $116,446 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $124,440 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$977 |
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 | $153,884 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,388 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Montana earn less than $165,580. The published range is $90,670 up to $212,760, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $116,446 take-home in Montana comes from $165,580. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 6 of 475.
- Two cautions on $129,034, the adjusted value of that $165,580 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Montana. 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 6 of 475 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for marketing managers in Montana the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $90,670 to $212,760. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $116,446, from $165,580, assumes a single Montana filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 6 of 475 locally, and the state ranks 12 of 48 for it.
- This $129,034 adjusted figure, worked from $165,580, 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 6 of 475 in the state. The occupation ranks 6 of 475 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 $170,770, 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 $90,670 and the top tenth $212,760 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Montana sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $129,034 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Montana adds its own income tax on top — which is why $116,446 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 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 Montana is $170,770. 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 ($90,670) and the ninetieth ($212,760) 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?
Montana'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 $129,034 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 $116,446 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Montana 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.