Parts Salespersons in Iowa
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,518
after federal, FICA and Iowa tax
Tax takes
$8,152
17.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,392
Iowa costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Iowa — 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
$46,670
Kept after tax
$38,518
Worth in national money
$43,392
State rank
5
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for parts salespersons is strong here. Iowa's middle earner gets $46,670, putting the state 5 of 50 — about 20.81% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Iowa, this sits in the middle: 344 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 $46,670 you keep $38,518 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $43,392 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $47,200, since top earners drag the number up.
- For parts salespersons, Iowa sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $46,670, ranking 5 of 50 and running about 20.81% 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.
- Parts salespersons ranks 344 of 493 occupations in Iowa 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 Iowa is $38,518 after the full tax stack, from $46,670. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $43,392 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $47,200 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Parts Salespersons
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $29,500 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $65,000 |
| This salary | $46,670 |
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 Iowa | $38,518 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,679 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,559 |
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 | $45,224 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,095 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 89 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $46,670 as a midpoint for Iowa, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $29,500 and the ninetieth is $65,000 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $38,518 take-home in Iowa comes from $46,670. 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 344 of 493.
- Two cautions on $43,392, the adjusted value of that $46,670 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Iowa. 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 344 of 493 locally.
- The Iowa median of $46,670 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $29,500 to $65,000. 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 $38,518, from $46,670, assumes a single Iowa 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 344 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 5 of 50 for it.
- This $43,392 adjusted figure, worked from $46,670, 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 344 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 344 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $29,500, the highest tenth $65,000, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Iowa is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $43,392 in national terms.
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 Iowa adds its own income tax on top — which is why $38,518 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($29,500) and the ninetieth ($65,000) 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?
Iowa'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 $43,392 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 $38,518 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Iowa 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.