Procurement Clerks in Vermont
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,365
after federal, FICA and Vermont tax
Tax takes
$8,595
17.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,736
Vermont costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Vermont — 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
$47,960
Kept after tax
$39,365
Worth in national money
$40,736
State rank
42
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Vermont pays procurement clerks a middle wage of $47,960, 42 of 51 states and about 5.18% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Vermont this is lower-paid work. Of 453 occupations the state publishes figures for, procurement clerks ranks 346. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Vermont is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $47,960 the take-home is $39,365; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $40,736 would nationally. The average comes to $50,410, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Vermont's $47,960 median for procurement clerks places it 42 of 51 states, about 5.18% 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 Vermont reports, procurement clerks ranks 346 of 453, 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.
- Post-tax income for procurement clerks in Vermont, on $47,960, is $39,365 — equivalent to $40,736 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $50,410 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Procurement Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,400 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,960 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,170 |
| This salary | $47,960 |
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 Vermont | $39,365 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,716 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,163 |
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 | $46,279 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,407 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
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 Vermont earn under $47,960 and half over. The published range runs $39,400 at the tenth percentile to $61,170 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $39,365 take-home in Vermont comes from $47,960. 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 346 of 453.
- Two cautions on $40,736, the adjusted value of that $47,960 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Vermont. 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 346 of 453 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for procurement clerks in Vermont, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $39,400 to $61,170; 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 $39,365, from $47,960, assumes a single Vermont 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 346 of 453 locally, and the state ranks 42 of 51 for it.
- This $40,736 adjusted figure, worked from $47,960, 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 346 of 453 in the state. The occupation ranks 346 of 453 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $50,410, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $39,400 at the tenth percentile, $61,170 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Vermont is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $40,736 in national terms.
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 Vermont's own levy, $39,365 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 Vermont is $50,410. 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 ($39,400 to $61,170) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Vermont rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Vermont'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 $40,736 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $39,365 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Vermont 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.