Pharmacy Technicians in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,061
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$6,839
14.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,196
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
$45,900
Kept after tax
$39,061
Worth in national money
$40,196
State rank
26
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Texas pays pharmacy technicians around $45,900 at the midpoint, 26 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 334 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $45,900, tax leaves $39,061, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $40,196 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $45,670.
- For pharmacy technicians the Texas median is $45,900, ranking 26 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Pharmacy technicians ranks 334 of 493 occupations in Texas 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for pharmacy technicians — median $45,900 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $39,061 retained, $40,196 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $45,670 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Pharmacy Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,920 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,900 |
| Top tenth earn over | $59,260 |
| This salary | $45,900 |
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 | $39,061 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $39,061 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,439 |
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 | $45,900 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,140 |
| 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 pharmacy technicians in Texas earn under $45,900 and half over. The published range runs $35,920 at the tenth percentile to $59,260 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $39,061 take-home in Texas comes from $45,900. 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 334 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $40,196, the adjusted value of that $45,900 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 334 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for pharmacy technicians in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,920 to $59,260; 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 $39,061, from $45,900, assumes a single Texas 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 334 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 26 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $40,196 — the adjusted value of that $45,900 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 334 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $35,920 at the tenth percentile, $59,260 at the ninetieth.
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 $40,196 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $39,061 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($35,920 to $59,260) 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 $40,196 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 $39,061 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.
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.