News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,894
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$11,836
20.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,336
Hawaii costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Hawaii — 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
$56,730
Kept after tax
$44,894
Worth in national money
$41,336
State rank
18
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Hawaii is 18 of 48 states for this job, with a middle wage of $56,730. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 271 among 437 occupations Hawaii publishes pay for.
- Hawaii is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $56,730 the take-home is $44,894; in national-average money that behaves like $41,336. The average comes to $73,280, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Hawaii ranks 18 of 48 for news analysts, reporters, and journalists at $56,730. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Position 271 of 437 in Hawaii places news analysts, reporters, and journalists in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Take-home for news analysts, reporters, and journalists in Hawaii, on $56,730, is $44,894; deflated by the state's price level, $41,336. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $73,280 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,630 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,730 |
| Top tenth earn over | $146,930 |
| This salary | $56,730 |
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 Hawaii | $44,894 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,763 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,815 |
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 | $53,160 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,452 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
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 news analysts, reporters, and journalists in Hawaii earn under $56,730 and half over. The published range runs $30,630 at the tenth percentile to $146,930 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Hawaii the take-home figure of $44,894, from $56,730, 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 271 of 437 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $41,336, the adjusted value of that $56,730 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Hawaii. 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 271 of 437 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for news analysts, reporters, and journalists in Hawaii, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $30,630 to $146,930; 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.
- Take-home for Hawaii is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $44,894 from $56,730. 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 271 of 437 locally.
- This $41,336 adjusted figure, worked from $56,730, 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 271 of 437 in the state. The occupation ranks 271 of 437 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 $73,280, 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 $30,630 and the top tenth $146,930 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Hawaii costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $41,336 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Hawaii then takes its own share, leaving $44,894.
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 48 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 Hawaii is $73,280. 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 ($30,630) and the ninetieth ($146,930) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Hawaii's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $41,336 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 $44,894 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Hawaii 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.