News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists in Indiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,060
after federal, FICA and Indiana tax
Tax takes
$8,550
18.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,371
Indiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Indiana — 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
$47,610
Kept after tax
$39,060
Worth in national money
$42,371
State rank
32
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Indiana pays this job around $47,610 at the midpoint, 32 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Indiana, this sits in the middle: 336 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $47,610 you keep $39,060 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $42,371 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $63,130, since top earners drag the number up.
- For news analysts, reporters, and journalists the Indiana median is $47,610, ranking 32 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.
- News analysts, reporters, and journalists ranks 336 of 493 occupations in Indiana 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.
- Retained pay in Indiana is $39,060 after the full tax stack, from $47,610. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $42,371 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $63,130 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,970 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,610 |
| Top tenth earn over | $100,780 |
| This salary | $47,610 |
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 Indiana | $39,060 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,435 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$761 |
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 | $45,899 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$921 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
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 Indiana earn under $47,610 and half over. The published range runs $31,970 at the tenth percentile to $100,780 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Indiana the take-home figure of $39,060, from $47,610, 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 336 of 493 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Indiana, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $42,371, the adjusted value of that $47,610 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 336 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for news analysts, reporters, and journalists in Indiana, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $31,970 to $100,780; 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 Indiana is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $39,060 from $47,610. 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 336 of 493 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Indiana, so $42,371 — the adjusted value of that $47,610 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 336 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 $63,130, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $31,970 and the top tenth $100,780 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $42,371.
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 Indiana's own levy, $39,060 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 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 Indiana is $63,130. 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 ($31,970) and the ninetieth ($100,780) 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?
Indiana'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 $42,371 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $39,060 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Indiana 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.