Physical Therapist Aides in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$27,563
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$4,027
12.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$28,364
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
$31,590
Kept after tax
$27,563
Worth in national money
$28,364
State rank
33
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Texas pays physical therapist aides around $31,590 at the midpoint, 33 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 493 occupations Texas publishes, physical therapist aides lands at 463. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $31,590, tax leaves $27,563, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $28,364 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $33,300, since top earners drag the number up.
- For physical therapist aides the Texas median is $31,590, ranking 33 of 50 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.
- Within Texas, this work ranks 463 of 493 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for physical therapist aides — median $31,590 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $27,563 retained, $28,364 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $33,300 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Physical Therapist Aides
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $22,520 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $31,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $46,710 |
| This salary | $31,590 |
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 | $27,563 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $27,563 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,721 |
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 | $31,590 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,216 |
| 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 physical therapist aides in Texas earn under $31,590 and half over. The published range runs $22,520 at the tenth percentile to $46,710 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $27,563, from $31,590, 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 463 of 493 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $28,364, the adjusted value of that $31,590 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 463 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for physical therapist aides in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $22,520 to $46,710; 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.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $27,563 from $31,590. 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 463 of 493 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $28,364 — the adjusted value of that $31,590 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 463 of 493 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 $33,300, 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 $22,520, the highest tenth $46,710, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $28,364.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $27,563 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $33,300. 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 ($22,520) and the ninetieth ($46,710) 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 $28,364 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 $27,563 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.