Medical and Health Services Managers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$89,135
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$25,015
21.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$91,726
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
$114,150
Kept after tax
$89,135
Worth in national money
$91,726
State rank
31
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Texas pays this job around $114,150 at the midpoint, 31 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Texas. It ranks 42 out of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $114,150, tax leaves $89,135, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $91,726 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $128,860, since top earners drag the number up.
- For medical and health services managers the Texas median is $114,150, ranking 31 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Texas, medical and health services managers ranks 42 of 493 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for medical and health services managers — median $114,150 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $89,135 retained, $91,726 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $128,860 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Medical and Health Services Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $65,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $114,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $205,600 |
| This salary | $114,150 |
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 | $89,135 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $89,135 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,566 |
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 | $114,150 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$8,200 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 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 Texas earn less than $114,150. The published range is $65,520 up to $205,600, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $89,135, worked from $114,150. 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 42 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $91,726, the adjusted value of that $114,150 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 42 of 493 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for medical and health services managers in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $65,520 to $205,600. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Texas take-home of $89,135, on $114,150 for work ranking 42 of 493 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 42 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $91,726 — the adjusted value of that $114,150 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 42 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $128,860, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $65,520, the highest tenth $205,600, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $91,726 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $89,135 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 Texas is $128,860. 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 ($65,520) and the ninetieth ($205,600) 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?
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 $91,726 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 $89,135 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.