Office Clerks, General in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,385
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$7,955
18.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,660
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
$42,340
Kept after tax
$34,385
Worth in national money
$31,660
State rank
35
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for office clerks, general is on the low side in Hawaii. The middle earner gets $42,340. That is 35 of 51 states, and about 5.93% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 437 occupations Hawaii publishes, office clerks, general lands at 391. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $42,340, tax leaves $34,385 — and because Hawaii is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $31,660 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $44,880, since top earners drag the number up.
- For office clerks, general, Hawaii sits in the lower band at $42,340, ranking 35 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 5.93%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Hawaii, this work ranks 391 of 437 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- After tax, $34,385 remains from the Hawaii median of $42,340 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $31,660 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $44,880 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Office Clerks, General
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,050 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,340 |
| Top tenth earn over | $62,040 |
| This salary | $42,340 |
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 | $34,385 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,200 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,593 |
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 | $40,081 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,764 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $42,340 as a midpoint for Hawaii, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,050 and the ninetieth is $62,040 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Hawaii the take-home figure of $34,385, from $42,340, 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 391 of 437 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $31,660, the adjusted value of that $42,340 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 391 of 437 locally.
- The Hawaii median of $42,340 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,050 to $62,040. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Hawaii is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $34,385 from $42,340. 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 391 of 437 locally.
- This $31,660 adjusted figure, worked from $42,340, 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 391 of 437 in the state. The occupation ranks 391 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 $44,880, 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $31,050, the highest tenth $62,040, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $31,660 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 $34,385.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 $44,880. 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 ($31,050) and the ninetieth ($62,040) 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 $31,660 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 $34,385 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.