Procurement Clerks in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,475
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$7,185
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,651
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
$47,660
Kept after tax
$40,475
Worth in national money
$41,651
State rank
47
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for procurement clerks is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $47,660. That is 47 of 51 states, and about 5.77% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Procurement clerks ranks 304 among 493 occupations Texas publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $47,660, tax leaves $40,475, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $41,651 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $48,790, since top earners drag the number up.
- For procurement clerks, Texas sits in the lower band at $47,660, ranking 47 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 5.77%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 304 of 493 in Texas places procurement clerks in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for procurement clerks — median $47,660 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $40,475 retained, $41,651 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $48,790 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 | $35,100 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,660 |
| Top tenth earn over | $64,400 |
| This salary | $47,660 |
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 | $40,475 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $40,475 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,527 |
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 | $47,660 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,254 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $47,660 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $35,100 and the ninetieth is $64,400 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $40,475 take-home in Texas comes from $47,660. 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 304 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $41,651 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 304.
- The Texas median of $47,660 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $35,100 to $64,400. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $40,475, from $47,660, assumes a single Texas 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 304 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 47 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $41,651, worked from $47,660, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Texas address, on work sitting at 304 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $35,100 at the tenth percentile, $64,400 at the ninetieth.
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 $41,651 in national terms.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $40,475 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 ($35,100 to $64,400) 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 $41,651 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 $40,475 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.