Occupational Therapy Assistants in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$66,165
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$15,335
18.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$68,089
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
$81,500
Kept after tax
$66,165
Worth in national money
$68,089
State rank
3
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Texas's middle earner gets $81,500, putting the state 3 of 50 — about 12.72% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Texas reports, this job comes in at 107 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $81,500 the take-home is $66,165, which is worth about $68,089 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $79,750, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For occupational therapy assistants, Texas sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $81,500, ranking 3 of 50 and running about 12.72% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Occupational therapy assistants ranks 107 of 493 occupations by median in Texas, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for occupational therapy assistants on its $81,500 median: $66,165 retained after tax becomes $68,089 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $79,750 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Occupational Therapy Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $60,980 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $81,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $95,900 |
| This salary | $81,500 |
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 | $66,165 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $66,165 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,131 |
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 | $81,500 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$6,075 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $81,500. The published range is $60,980 up to $95,900, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $66,165, worked from $81,500. 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 107 of 493.
- Two cautions on $68,089, the adjusted value of that $81,500 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 107 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for occupational therapy assistants in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $60,980 to $95,900. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Texas take-home of $66,165, on $81,500 for work ranking 107 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 107 of 493 in the state.
- This $68,089 adjusted figure, worked from $81,500, 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 107 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 107 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $60,980 and the top tenth $95,900, so most people doing this work in Texas sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $68,089 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $66,165 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($60,980 to $95,900) 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 $68,089 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 $66,165 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.