Pediatricians, General in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$129,758
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$43,602
25.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$133,530
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
$173,360
Kept after tax
$129,758
Worth in national money
$133,530
State rank
44
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for pediatricians, general is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $173,360. That is 44 of 49 states, and about 17.46% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Within Texas this is well-paid work. Of 493 occupations with published figures in the state, pediatricians, general ranks 5 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $173,360, tax leaves $129,758, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $133,530 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $194,140, since top earners drag the number up.
- For pediatricians, general, Texas sits in the lower band at $173,360, ranking 44 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 17.46%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Ranked against every occupation Texas publishes a median for, pediatricians, general sits 5 of 493 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for pediatricians, general — median $173,360 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $129,758 retained, $133,530 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $194,140 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Pediatricians, General
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $77,570 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $173,360 |
| Top tenth earn over | $366,790 |
| This salary | $173,360 |
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 | $129,758 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $129,758 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$8,102 |
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 | $173,360 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$12,169 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of pediatricians, general in Texas earn under $173,360 and half over. The published range runs $77,570 at the tenth percentile to $366,790 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $129,758, worked from $173,360. 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 5 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $133,530 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 5.
- Figures are distribution medians for pediatricians, general in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $77,570 to $366,790; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Texas take-home of $129,758, on $173,360 for work ranking 5 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 5 of 493 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $133,530, worked from $173,360, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Texas address, on work sitting at 5 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $194,140 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $77,570 and the top tenth $366,790 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $133,530.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $129,758 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 Texas is $194,140. 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 ($77,570) and the ninetieth ($366,790) 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?
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 $133,530 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 $129,758 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.