Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$31,018
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$4,872
13.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,919
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$35,890
Kept after tax
$31,018
Worth in national money
$31,919
State rank
41
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $35,890. That is 41 of 50 states, and about 6.29% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Texas publishes, this job lands at 437. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $35,890, tax leaves $31,018, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $31,919 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $35,540.
- For meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers, Texas sits in the lower band at $35,890, ranking 41 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 6.29%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Texas, this work ranks 437 of 493 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers — median $35,890 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $31,018 retained, $31,919 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $35,540 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
Compare this career across states
Choose your filing status and local taxes, compare pay, and keep a shortlist.Compare wage and personal-pay outcomes by state, with selected resident local taxes and saved career choices.
Pay band: Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $23,230 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $35,890 |
| Top tenth earn over | $45,230 |
| This salary | $35,890 |
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 Texas | $31,018 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $31,018 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,937 |
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 | $35,890 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,494 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 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 meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers in Texas earn under $35,890 and half over. The published range runs $23,230 at the tenth percentile to $45,230 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $31,018, from $35,890, 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 437 of 493 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $31,919 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 437.
- Figures are distribution medians for meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $23,230 to $45,230; 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.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $31,018 from $35,890. 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 437 of 493 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $31,919, worked from $35,890, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Texas address, on work sitting at 437 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $23,230 at the bottom tenth to $45,230 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $31,919.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $31,018 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($23,230 to $45,230) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Texas'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 $31,919 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $31,018 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.
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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.