Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,669
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$8,211
15.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,968
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
$52,880
Kept after tax
$44,669
Worth in national money
$45,968
State rank
41
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Texas pays this job a middle wage of $52,880, 41 of 46 states and about 20.21% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Texas reports figures for, this is number 253.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $52,880, take-home of $44,669 is worth roughly $45,968 in national money. The average comes to $56,510, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Texas's $52,880 median for probation officers and correctional treatment specialists places it 41 of 46 states, about 20.21% 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.
- In Texas's occupational distribution, probation officers and correctional treatment specialists sits at 253 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for probation officers and correctional treatment specialists, whose median is $52,880, the adjusted figure of $45,968 differs little from $44,669 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $56,510 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,020 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,880 |
| Top tenth earn over | $74,290 |
| This salary | $52,880 |
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 | $44,669 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $44,669 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,789 |
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 | $52,880 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,591 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $52,880 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $46,020 and the ninetieth is $74,290 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $44,669, from $52,880, 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 253 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $45,968, the adjusted value of that $52,880 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 253 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $52,880 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $46,020 to $74,290. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $44,669 from $52,880. 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 253 of 493 locally.
- This $45,968 adjusted figure, worked from $52,880, 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 253 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 253 of 493 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 $56,510 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $46,020 at the bottom tenth to $74,290 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Texas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $45,968 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $44,669 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $56,510. 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 ($46,020 to $74,290) 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 $45,968 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 $44,669 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.