Producers and Directors in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$63,256
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$24,204
27.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$60,404
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$87,460
Kept after tax
$63,256
Worth in national money
$60,404
State rank
6
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for producers and directors is strong here. Oregon's middle earner gets $87,460, putting the state 6 of 50 — about 3.21% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Oregon, this sits in the middle: 124 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $87,460 the take-home is $63,256. But Oregon costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $60,404 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $95,710, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For producers and directors, Oregon sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $87,460, ranking 6 of 50 and running about 3.21% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Producers and directors ranks 124 of 489 occupations in Oregon 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and Oregon income tax is $63,256 for producers and directors, from $87,460. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $60,404. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $95,710 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Producers and Directors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,350 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $87,460 |
| Top tenth earn over | $143,490 |
| This salary | $87,460 |
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 Oregon | $63,256 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $70,358 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$12,000 |
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 | $77,364 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$16,575 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $87,460 as a midpoint for Oregon, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $49,350 and the ninetieth is $143,490 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $63,256 take-home in Oregon comes from $87,460. 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 124 of 489.
- One number stands for prices across all of Oregon, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $60,404, the adjusted value of that $87,460 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 124 of 489 in the state.
- The Oregon median of $87,460 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $49,350 to $143,490. 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 $63,256, from $87,460, assumes a single Oregon 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 124 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 6 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Oregon, so $60,404 — the adjusted value of that $87,460 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 124 of 489 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 $95,710 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $49,350 and the top tenth $143,490 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $60,404 of national purchasing power.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Oregon adds its own income tax on top — which is why $63,256 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 Oregon is $95,710. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($49,350) and the ninetieth ($143,490) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $60,404 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 $63,256 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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.
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.