Pharmacy Technicians in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,362
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$7,548
18.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,535
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$41,910
Kept after tax
$34,362
Worth in national money
$35,535
State rank
41
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Georgia pays pharmacy technicians a middle wage of $41,910, 41 of 51 states and about 8.39% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against 492 occupations Georgia publishes, pharmacy technicians lands at 385. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $41,910 you keep $34,362 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $35,535 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $43,960, since top earners drag the number up.
- Georgia's $41,910 median for pharmacy technicians places it 41 of 51 states, about 8.39% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Within Georgia, this work ranks 385 of 492 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.
- Retained pay in Georgia is $34,362 after the full tax stack, from $41,910. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $35,535 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $43,960 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Pharmacy Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,160 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $41,910 |
| Top tenth earn over | $56,820 |
| This salary | $41,910 |
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 Georgia | $34,362 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $35,855 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,362 |
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 | $40,052 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,647 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 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 pharmacy technicians in Georgia earn under $41,910 and half over. The published range runs $35,160 at the tenth percentile to $56,820 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $34,362 take-home in Georgia comes from $41,910. 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 385 of 492.
- One number stands for prices across all of Georgia, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $35,535, the adjusted value of that $41,910 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 385 of 492 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for pharmacy technicians in Georgia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,160 to $56,820; 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.
- Retained pay of $34,362, from $41,910, assumes a single Georgia 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 385 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 41 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Georgia, so $35,535 — the adjusted value of that $41,910 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 385 of 492 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 $43,960 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $35,160 and the top tenth $56,820, so most people doing this work in Georgia sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $35,535.
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 Georgia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $34,362 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 Georgia is $43,960. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($35,160 to $56,820) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Georgia rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Georgia'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 $35,535 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 $34,362 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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.