Occupational Health and Safety Technicians in Mississippi
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,021
after federal, FICA and Mississippi tax
Tax takes
$12,209
19.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,158
Mississippi costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Mississippi — 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
$61,230
Kept after tax
$49,021
Worth in national money
$56,158
State rank
31
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Mississippi pays this job around $61,230 at the midpoint, 31 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Mississippi, this sits in the middle: 143 of 486 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Here is where Mississippi does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $61,230 you keep $49,021, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $56,158 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $65,350, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For occupational health and safety technicians the Mississippi median is $61,230, ranking 31 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.
- Occupational health and safety technicians ranks 143 of 486 occupations in Mississippi 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.
- After federal, FICA and Mississippi income tax, retained pay for occupational health and safety technicians on $61,230 is $49,021. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $56,158 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $65,350 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Occupational Health and Safety Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,920 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $100,680 |
| This salary | $61,230 |
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 Mississippi | $49,021 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,378 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,286 |
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 | $58,296 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,974 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $61,230 as a midpoint for Mississippi, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,920 and the ninetieth is $100,680 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $49,021 take-home in Mississippi comes from $61,230. 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 143 of 486.
- Two cautions on $56,158, the adjusted value of that $61,230 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Mississippi. 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 143 of 486 locally.
- The Mississippi median of $61,230 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,920 to $100,680. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $49,021, from $61,230, assumes a single Mississippi 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 143 of 486 locally, and the state ranks 31 of 48 for it.
- This $56,158 adjusted figure, worked from $61,230, 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 143 of 486 in the state. The occupation ranks 143 of 486 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $65,350, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $37,920, the highest tenth $100,680, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Mississippi sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $56,158 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Mississippi adds its own income tax on top — which is why $49,021 of this wage survives to your account.
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 Mississippi is $65,350. 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 ($37,920) and the ninetieth ($100,680) 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?
Mississippi'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 $56,158 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 $49,021 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Mississippi 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.