Physician Assistants in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$103,231
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$31,319
23.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$106,232
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
$134,550
Kept after tax
$103,231
Worth in national money
$106,232
State rank
27
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Texas is 27 of 51 states for physician assistants, with a middle wage of $134,550. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Texas reports, physician assistants comes in at 20 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $134,550 the take-home is $103,231, which is worth about $106,232 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $135,850, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas ranks 27 of 51 for physician assistants at $134,550. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Physician assistants ranks 20 of 493 occupations by median in Texas, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for physician assistants on its $134,550 median: $103,231 retained after tax becomes $106,232 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $135,850 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Physician Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $102,650 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $134,550 |
| Top tenth earn over | $169,000 |
| This salary | $134,550 |
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 | $103,231 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $103,231 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,446 |
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 | $134,550 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$9,756 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $134,550 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $102,650 and the ninetieth is $169,000 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $103,231, worked from $134,550. 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 20 of 493.
- Two cautions on $106,232, the adjusted value of that $134,550 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 20 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $134,550 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $102,650 to $169,000. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Texas take-home of $103,231, on $134,550 for work ranking 20 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 20 of 493 in the state.
- This $106,232 adjusted figure, worked from $134,550, 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 20 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 20 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $102,650 at the tenth percentile, $169,000 at the ninetieth.
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 $106,232.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $103,231 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($102,650 to $169,000) 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 $106,232 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 $103,231 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.