Marriage and Family Therapists in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$69,266
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$22,284
24.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$71,630
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
$91,550
Kept after tax
$69,266
Worth in national money
$71,630
State rank
3
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for marriage and family therapists is strong here. Georgia's middle earner gets $91,550, putting the state 3 of 45 — about 36.76% ahead of the national figure.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Georgia. It ranks 88 out of 492 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Georgia is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $91,550 the take-home is $69,266; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $71,630 would nationally. The average lands at $83,300, below the middle of the range.
- For marriage and family therapists, Georgia sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $91,550, ranking 3 of 45 and running about 36.76% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Within Georgia, marriage and family therapists ranks 88 of 492 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Post-tax income for marriage and family therapists in Georgia, on $91,550, is $69,266 — equivalent to $71,630 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $83,300 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Marriage and Family Therapists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,430 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $91,550 |
| Top tenth earn over | $102,320 |
| This salary | $91,550 |
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 | $69,266 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $73,235 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,734 |
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 | $85,907 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,158 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Georgia earn less than $91,550. The published range is $42,430 up to $102,320, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Georgia the take-home figure of $69,266, from $91,550, 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 492 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $71,630, the adjusted value of that $91,550 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 88 of 492 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for marriage and family therapists in Georgia the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $42,430 to $102,320. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Georgia is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $69,266 from $91,550. 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 492 locally.
- This $71,630 adjusted figure, worked from $91,550, 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 492 in the state. The occupation ranks 88 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $83,300, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $42,430 at the tenth percentile, $102,320 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Georgia sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $71,630 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 Georgia's own levy, $69,266 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $83,300. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($42,430 to $102,320) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Georgia rather than a national figure.
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 $71,630 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 $69,266 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.