Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers in District of Columbia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$69,987
after federal, FICA and District of Columbia tax
Tax takes
$24,093
25.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,163
District of Columbia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in District of Columbia — 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
$94,080
Kept after tax
$69,987
Worth in national money
$63,163
State rank
5
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. District of Columbia pays this job a middle wage of $94,080, ranking 5 of 51 states and sitting about 34.42% above the national middle.
- Against other work in District of Columbia, this sits in the middle: 145 of 390 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- District of Columbia is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $94,080 the take-home is $69,987; in national-average money that behaves like $63,163. The average comes to $103,760, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- District of Columbia's median for property, real estate, and community association managers is $94,080, about 34.42% above the national figure and 5 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Property, real estate, and community association managers ranks 145 of 390 occupations in District of Columbia 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.
- Take-home for property, real estate, and community association managers in District of Columbia, on $94,080, is $69,987; deflated by the state's price level, $63,163. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $103,760 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $62,570 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $94,080 |
| Top tenth earn over | $160,330 |
| This salary | $94,080 |
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 District of Columbia | $69,987 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $75,015 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$14,033 |
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 | $86,932 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$19,384 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 111 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $94,080 as a midpoint for District of Columbia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $62,570 and the ninetieth is $160,330 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $69,987 take-home in District of Columbia comes from $94,080. 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 145 of 390.
- One number stands for prices across all of District of Columbia, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $63,163, the adjusted value of that $94,080 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 145 of 390 in the state.
- The District of Columbia median of $94,080 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $62,570 to $160,330. 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 $69,987, from $94,080, assumes a single District of Columbia 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 145 of 390 locally, and the state ranks 5 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for District of Columbia, so $63,163 — the adjusted value of that $94,080 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 145 of 390 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 $103,760 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $62,570, the highest tenth $160,330, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. District of Columbia costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $63,163 rather than its face figure.
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 District of Columbia's own levy, $69,987 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 District of Columbia is $103,760. 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 ($62,570) and the ninetieth ($160,330) 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?
District of Columbia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $63,163 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 $69,987 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and District of Columbia 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.