Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers in South Carolina
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,799
after federal, FICA and South Carolina tax
Tax takes
$12,011
19.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,519
South Carolina costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in South Carolina — 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
$62,810
Kept after tax
$50,799
Worth in national money
$54,519
State rank
27
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- South Carolina sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $62,810, ranking 27 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 179 among 492 occupations South Carolina publishes pay for.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $62,810 you keep $50,799 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $54,519 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $81,360, since top earners drag the number up.
- South Carolina occupies the middle band for property, real estate, and community association managers: a median of $62,810, ranking 27 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Position 179 of 492 in South Carolina places property, real estate, and community association managers 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.
- Retained pay in South Carolina is $50,799 after the full tax stack, from $62,810. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $54,519 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $81,360 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,280 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,810 |
| Top tenth earn over | $140,540 |
| This salary | $62,810 |
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 South Carolina | $50,799 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,648 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$340 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
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 | $60,509 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$412 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $62,810 as a midpoint for South Carolina, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $42,280 and the ninetieth is $140,540 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $50,799 take-home in South Carolina comes from $62,810. 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 179 of 492.
- One number stands for prices across all of South Carolina, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $54,519, the adjusted value of that $62,810 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 179 of 492 in the state.
- The South Carolina median of $62,810 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $42,280 to $140,540. 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 $50,799, from $62,810, assumes a single South Carolina 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 179 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for South Carolina, so $54,519 — the adjusted value of that $62,810 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 179 of 492 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $81,360, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $42,280 and the top tenth $140,540 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in South Carolina sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $54,519 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 South Carolina adds its own income tax on top — which is why $50,799 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.
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 South Carolina is $81,360. 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 ($42,280) and the ninetieth ($140,540) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
South Carolina'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 $54,519 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 $50,799 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and South Carolina 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.