Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$49,029
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$12,752
20.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$48,664
Virginia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Virginia — 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
$61,780
Kept after tax
$49,029
Worth in national money
$48,664
State rank
12
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Virginia is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $61,780, which ranks 12 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 3.57% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 229 among 489 occupations Virginia publishes pay for.
- No great distortion either way. Virginia costs about what the country costs, so from $61,780, take-home of $49,029 is worth roughly $48,664 in national money. The average comes to $63,510, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Virginia ranks 12 of 51 states publishing a median for production, planning, and expediting clerks, at $61,780 — about 3.57% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Position 229 of 489 in Virginia places production, planning, and expediting 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.
- Price parity in Virginia is near the national base, so for production, planning, and expediting clerks, whose median is $61,780, the adjusted figure of $48,664 differs little from $49,029 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $63,510 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,630 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,780 |
| Top tenth earn over | $90,890 |
| This salary | $61,780 |
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 Virginia | $49,029 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,820 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,663 |
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 | $58,306 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,639 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $61,780 as a midpoint for Virginia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $40,630 and the ninetieth is $90,890 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Virginia's $49,029, worked from $61,780. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 229 of 489.
- Two cautions on $48,664, the adjusted value of that $61,780 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Virginia. 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 229 of 489 locally.
- The Virginia median of $61,780 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $40,630 to $90,890. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Virginia take-home of $49,029, on $61,780 for work ranking 229 of 489 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 229 of 489 in the state.
- This $48,664 adjusted figure, worked from $61,780, 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 229 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 229 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $40,630 and the top tenth $90,890 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Virginia costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $48,664 rather than its face figure.
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 Virginia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $49,029 of this wage survives to your account.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($40,630) and the ninetieth ($90,890) 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?
Virginia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $48,664 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 $49,029 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Virginia 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.