Property Appraisers and Assessors in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,738
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$17,342
22.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,302
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
$76,080
Kept after tax
$58,738
Worth in national money
$58,302
State rank
14
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Virginia pays this job a middle wage of $76,080, ranking 14 of 50 states and sitting about 11.95% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 489 occupations Virginia reports figures for, this is number 154.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $76,080, tax leaves $58,738, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $58,302 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $77,600, since top earners drag the number up.
- Virginia's median for property appraisers and assessors is $76,080, about 11.95% above the national figure and 14 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- In Virginia's occupational distribution, property appraisers and assessors sits at 154 of 489 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Because Virginia sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for property appraisers and assessors — median $76,080 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $58,738 retained, $58,302 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $77,600 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Property Appraisers and Assessors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,260 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $76,080 |
| Top tenth earn over | $109,930 |
| This salary | $76,080 |
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 | $58,738 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $62,352 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,863 |
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 | $70,943 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,099 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Virginia earn less than $76,080. The published range is $47,260 up to $109,930, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Virginia's $58,738, worked from $76,080. 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 154 of 489.
- Two cautions on $58,302, the adjusted value of that $76,080 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 154 of 489 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for property appraisers and assessors in Virginia the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $47,260 to $109,930. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Virginia take-home of $58,738, on $76,080 for work ranking 154 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 154 of 489 in the state.
- This $58,302 adjusted figure, worked from $76,080, 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 154 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 154 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $47,260, the highest tenth $109,930, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Virginia run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $58,302 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Virginia then takes its own share, leaving $58,738.
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.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($47,260) and the ninetieth ($109,930) 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 $58,302 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 $58,738 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.
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.