Print Binding and Finishing Workers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,159
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$5,151
13.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,093
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
$37,310
Kept after tax
$32,159
Worth in national money
$33,093
State rank
45
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Texas pays print binding and finishing workers a middle wage of $37,310, 45 of 50 states and about 11.78% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Texas this is lower-paid work. Of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, print binding and finishing workers ranks 418. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $37,310, take-home of $32,159 is worth roughly $33,093 in national money. The average comes to $41,840, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Texas's $37,310 median for print binding and finishing workers places it 45 of 50 states, about 11.78% 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.
- Against every occupation Texas reports, print binding and finishing workers ranks 418 of 493, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for print binding and finishing workers, whose median is $37,310, the adjusted figure of $33,093 differs little from $32,159 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $41,840 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Print Binding and Finishing Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,060 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,310 |
| Top tenth earn over | $52,480 |
| This salary | $37,310 |
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 | $32,159 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $32,159 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,008 |
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 | $37,310 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,585 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $37,310. The published range is $30,060 up to $52,480, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $32,159, worked from $37,310. 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 418 of 493.
- Two cautions on $33,093, the adjusted value of that $37,310 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 418 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for print binding and finishing workers in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $30,060 to $52,480. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Texas take-home of $32,159, on $37,310 for work ranking 418 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 418 of 493 in the state.
- This $33,093 adjusted figure, worked from $37,310, 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 418 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 418 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $41,840, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $30,060 and the top tenth $52,480, so most people doing this work in Texas 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 $33,093.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $32,159 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?
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 $41,840. 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 ($30,060 to $52,480) 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 $33,093 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 $32,159 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.