New Accounts Clerks in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,566
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$6,474
14.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,658
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
$44,040
Kept after tax
$37,566
Worth in national money
$38,658
State rank
36
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Texas pays new accounts clerks a middle wage of $44,040, 36 of 45 states and about 7.61% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 358 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $44,040 the take-home is $37,566, which is worth about $38,658 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $44,970, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas's $44,040 median for new accounts clerks places it 36 of 45 states, about 7.61% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- New accounts clerks ranks 358 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.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for new accounts clerks on its $44,040 median: $37,566 retained after tax becomes $38,658 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $44,970 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: New Accounts Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,910 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $44,040 |
| Top tenth earn over | $54,920 |
| This salary | $44,040 |
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 | $37,566 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $37,566 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,346 |
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 | $44,040 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,020 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $44,040 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $35,910 and the ninetieth is $54,920 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $37,566, worked from $44,040. 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 358 of 493.
- Two cautions on $38,658, the adjusted value of that $44,040 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 358 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $44,040 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $35,910 to $54,920. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Texas take-home of $37,566, on $44,040 for work ranking 358 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 358 of 493 in the state.
- This $38,658 adjusted figure, worked from $44,040, 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 358 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 358 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $35,910 at the tenth percentile, $54,920 at the ninetieth.
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 $38,658 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $37,566 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. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($35,910 to $54,920) 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 $38,658 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 $37,566 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.