Medical Transcriptionists in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,650
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$6,250
14.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,716
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
$42,900
Kept after tax
$36,650
Worth in national money
$37,716
State rank
19
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas sits in the middle of the pack for medical transcriptionists. The median is $42,900, ranking 19 of 50 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Texas reports figures for, this is number 368.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $42,900 the take-home is $36,650, which is worth about $37,716 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $38,890, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- Texas occupies the middle band for medical transcriptionists: a median of $42,900, ranking 19 of 50. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- In Texas's occupational distribution, medical transcriptionists sits at 368 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for medical transcriptionists on its $42,900 median: $36,650 retained after tax becomes $37,716 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $38,890 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Medical Transcriptionists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $22,540 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,900 |
| Top tenth earn over | $49,410 |
| This salary | $42,900 |
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 | $36,650 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $36,650 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,288 |
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 | $42,900 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,946 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $42,900 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $22,540 and the ninetieth is $49,410 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $36,650 take-home in Texas comes from $42,900. 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 368 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $37,716, the adjusted value of that $42,900 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 368 of 493 in the state.
- The Texas median of $42,900 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $22,540 to $49,410. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $36,650, from $42,900, 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 368 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 19 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $37,716 — the adjusted value of that $42,900 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 368 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 $38,890, 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 — $22,540 at the tenth percentile, $49,410 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Texas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $37,716 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $36,650 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 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 Texas is $38,890. 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 ($22,540 to $49,410) 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 $37,716 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 $36,650 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.