Occupational Therapy Assistants in Rhode Island
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,679
after federal, FICA and Rhode Island tax
Tax takes
$13,031
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,931
Rhode Island costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Rhode Island — 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
$66,710
Kept after tax
$53,679
Worth in national money
$52,931
State rank
25
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Rhode Island pays this job around $66,710 at the midpoint, 25 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Rhode Island, this sits in the middle: 209 of 452 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $66,710, tax leaves $53,679, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $52,931 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $67,840, since top earners drag the number up.
- For occupational therapy assistants the Rhode Island median is $66,710, ranking 25 of 50 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 therapy assistants ranks 209 of 452 occupations in Rhode Island 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.
- Because Rhode Island sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for occupational therapy assistants — median $66,710 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $53,679 retained, $52,931 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $67,840 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Occupational Therapy Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $58,220 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $66,710 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,560 |
| This salary | $66,710 |
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 Rhode Island | $53,679 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $55,760 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,450 |
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 | $64,093 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,408 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $66,710 as a midpoint for Rhode Island, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $58,220 and the ninetieth is $75,560 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $53,679 take-home in Rhode Island comes from $66,710. 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 209 of 452.
- Two cautions on $52,931, the adjusted value of that $66,710 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Rhode Island. 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 209 of 452 locally.
- The Rhode Island median of $66,710 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $58,220 to $75,560. 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 $53,679, from $66,710, assumes a single Rhode Island 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 209 of 452 locally, and the state ranks 25 of 50 for it.
- This $52,931 adjusted figure, worked from $66,710, 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 209 of 452 in the state. The occupation ranks 209 of 452 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $58,220 and the top tenth $75,560, so most people doing this work in Rhode Island sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $52,931 of national purchasing power.
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 Rhode Island's own levy, $53,679 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($58,220 to $75,560) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Rhode Island rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Rhode Island's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $52,931 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 $53,679 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Rhode Island 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.