Natural Sciences Managers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$100,094
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$29,866
23.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$103,004
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
$129,960
Kept after tax
$100,094
Worth in national money
$103,004
State rank
27
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Texas pays natural sciences managers around $129,960 at the midpoint, 27 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Within Texas this is well-paid work. Of 493 occupations with published figures in the state, natural sciences managers ranks 28 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $129,960, tax leaves $100,094, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $103,004 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $136,780, since top earners drag the number up.
- For natural sciences managers the Texas median is $129,960, ranking 27 of 48 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.
- Ranked against every occupation Texas publishes a median for, natural sciences managers sits 28 of 493 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for natural sciences managers — median $129,960 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $100,094 retained, $103,004 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $136,780 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Natural Sciences Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $74,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $129,960 |
| Top tenth earn over | $213,280 |
| This salary | $129,960 |
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 | $100,094 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $100,094 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,250 |
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 | $129,960 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$9,459 |
| 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 natural sciences managers in Texas earn under $129,960 and half over. The published range runs $74,200 at the tenth percentile to $213,280 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $100,094 take-home in Texas comes from $129,960. 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 28 of 493.
- Two cautions on $103,004, the adjusted value of that $129,960 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 28 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for natural sciences managers in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $74,200 to $213,280; 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.
- Retained pay of $100,094, from $129,960, 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 28 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 48 for it.
- This $103,004 adjusted figure, worked from $129,960, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 28 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 28 of 493 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 $136,780, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $74,200 and the top tenth $213,280 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $103,004 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $100,094 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $136,780. 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 ($74,200) and the ninetieth ($213,280) 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 $103,004 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 $100,094 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.