Medical Records Specialists in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,439
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$7,421
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,644
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
$48,860
Kept after tax
$41,439
Worth in national money
$42,644
State rank
37
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for medical records specialists is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $48,860. That is 37 of 51 states, and about 4.46% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 285 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $48,860, tax leaves $41,439, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $42,644 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $52,880, since top earners drag the number up.
- For medical records specialists, Texas sits in the lower band at $48,860, ranking 37 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 4.46%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Medical records specialists ranks 285 of 493 occupations in Texas 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for medical records specialists — median $48,860 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $41,439 retained, $42,644 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $52,880 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Medical Records Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,440 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,390 |
| This salary | $48,860 |
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 | $41,439 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $41,439 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,587 |
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 | $48,860 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,331 |
| 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 $48,860. The published range is $34,440 up to $78,390, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $41,439 take-home in Texas comes from $48,860. 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 285 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $42,644, the adjusted value of that $48,860 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 285 of 493 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for medical records specialists in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,440 to $78,390. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $41,439, from $48,860, assumes a single Texas 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 285 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 37 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $42,644 — the adjusted value of that $48,860 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 285 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $52,880 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $34,440, the highest tenth $78,390, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $42,644.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $41,439 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $52,880. 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 ($34,440) and the ninetieth ($78,390) 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 $42,644 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 $41,439 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.