Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,151
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$9,729
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,853
Virginia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Virginia — 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
$49,880
Kept after tax
$40,151
Worth in national money
$39,853
State rank
21
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Virginia pays this job around $49,880 at the midpoint, 21 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Virginia, this sits in the middle: 315 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $49,880, tax leaves $40,151, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $39,853 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $53,060, since top earners drag the number up.
- For miscellaneous construction and related workers the Virginia median is $49,880, ranking 21 of 45 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.
- Miscellaneous construction and related workers ranks 315 of 489 occupations in Virginia 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 Virginia sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for miscellaneous construction and related workers — median $49,880 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $40,151 retained, $39,853 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $53,060 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,980 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,880 |
| Top tenth earn over | $66,830 |
| This salary | $49,880 |
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 Virginia | $40,151 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,259 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,634 |
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 | $47,257 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,396 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $49,880 as a midpoint for Virginia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $41,980 and the ninetieth is $66,830 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Virginia the take-home figure of $40,151, from $49,880, 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 315 of 489 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Virginia, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $39,853, the adjusted value of that $49,880 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 315 of 489 in the state.
- The Virginia median of $49,880 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $41,980 to $66,830. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Virginia is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $40,151 from $49,880. 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 315 of 489 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Virginia, so $39,853 — the adjusted value of that $49,880 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 315 of 489 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 $53,060, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $41,980 and the top tenth $66,830, so most people doing this work in Virginia sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Virginia costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $39,853 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Virginia's own levy, $40,151 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Virginia is $53,060. 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 ($41,980 to $66,830) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Virginia rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Virginia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $39,853 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $40,151 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Virginia 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.