Procurement Clerks in District of Columbia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,063
after federal, FICA and District of Columbia tax
Tax takes
$12,817
20.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,182
District of Columbia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in District of Columbia — 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
$62,880
Kept after tax
$50,063
Worth in national money
$45,182
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. District of Columbia pays procurement clerks a middle wage of $62,880, ranking 1 of 51 states and sitting about 24.32% above the national middle.
- Against other work in District of Columbia, this sits in the middle: 260 of 390 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $62,880, tax leaves $50,063 — and because District of Columbia is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $45,182 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $66,170, since top earners drag the number up.
- District of Columbia's median for procurement clerks is $62,880, about 24.32% above the national figure and 1 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Procurement clerks ranks 260 of 390 occupations in District of Columbia 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.
- After tax, $50,063 remains from the District of Columbia median of $62,880 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $45,182 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $66,170 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Procurement Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,670 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,880 |
| Top tenth earn over | $88,850 |
| This salary | $62,880 |
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 District of Columbia | $50,063 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,704 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,054 |
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 | $59,594 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$10,950 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 111 |
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 procurement clerks in District of Columbia earn under $62,880 and half over. The published range runs $47,670 at the tenth percentile to $88,850 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $50,063 take-home in District of Columbia comes from $62,880. 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 260 of 390.
- Two cautions on $45,182, the adjusted value of that $62,880 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of District of Columbia. 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 260 of 390 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for procurement clerks in District of Columbia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $47,670 to $88,850; 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 $50,063, from $62,880, assumes a single District of Columbia 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 260 of 390 locally, and the state ranks 1 of 51 for it.
- This $45,182 adjusted figure, worked from $62,880, 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 260 of 390 in the state. The occupation ranks 260 of 390 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 $66,170 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 $47,670 at the bottom tenth to $88,850 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $45,182 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and District of Columbia's own levy, $50,063 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 District of Columbia is $66,170. 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 ($47,670 to $88,850) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to District of Columbia rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
District of Columbia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $45,182 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $50,063 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and District of Columbia income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
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.