Marriage and Family Therapists in Nebraska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,342
after federal, FICA and Nebraska tax
Tax takes
$12,268
19.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,703
Nebraska costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Nebraska — 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
$62,610
Kept after tax
$50,342
Worth in national money
$55,703
State rank
24
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Nebraska sits in the middle of the pack for marriage and family therapists. The median is $62,610, ranking 24 of 45 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Nebraska, this sits in the middle: 189 of 488 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $62,610 you keep $50,342 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $55,703 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $65,640, since top earners drag the number up.
- Nebraska occupies the middle band for marriage and family therapists: a median of $62,610, ranking 24 of 45. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Marriage and family therapists ranks 189 of 488 occupations in Nebraska by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Retained pay in Nebraska is $50,342 after the full tax stack, from $62,610. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $55,703 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $65,640 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Marriage and Family Therapists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,490 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,610 |
| Top tenth earn over | $95,590 |
| This salary | $62,610 |
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 Nebraska | $50,342 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,487 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,690 |
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 | $59,940 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,044 |
| 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 Nebraska earn less than $62,610. The published range is $38,490 up to $95,590, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Nebraska the take-home figure of $50,342, from $62,610, 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 189 of 488 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $55,703, the adjusted value of that $62,610 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Nebraska. 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 189 of 488 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for marriage and family therapists in Nebraska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $38,490 to $95,590. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Nebraska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $50,342 from $62,610. 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 189 of 488 locally.
- This $55,703 adjusted figure, worked from $62,610, 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 189 of 488 in the state. The occupation ranks 189 of 488 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 $65,640, 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $38,490, the highest tenth $95,590, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Nebraska is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $55,703 in national terms.
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 Nebraska adds its own income tax on top — which is why $50,342 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 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 Nebraska is $65,640. 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 ($38,490) and the ninetieth ($95,590) 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?
Nebraska'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 $55,703 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 $50,342 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Nebraska 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.