Psychiatric Technicians in Indiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,874
after federal, FICA and Indiana tax
Tax takes
$7,036
17.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,746
Indiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Indiana — 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
$40,910
Kept after tax
$33,874
Worth in national money
$36,746
State rank
31
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Indiana is 31 of 49 states for psychiatric technicians, with a middle wage of $40,910. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Indiana this is lower-paid work. Of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, psychiatric technicians ranks 404. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $40,910 you keep $33,874 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $36,746 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $42,750, since top earners drag the number up.
- Indiana ranks 31 of 49 for psychiatric technicians at $40,910. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation Indiana reports, psychiatric technicians ranks 404 of 493, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Retained pay in Indiana is $33,874 after the full tax stack, from $40,910. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $36,746 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $42,750 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Psychiatric Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,910 |
| Top tenth earn over | $50,190 |
| This salary | $40,910 |
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 Indiana | $33,874 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $35,051 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$676 |
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 | $39,445 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$817 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Indiana earn less than $40,910. The published range is $36,010 up to $50,190, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Indiana the take-home figure of $33,874, from $40,910, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 404 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $36,746, the adjusted value of that $40,910 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Indiana. 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 404 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for psychiatric technicians in Indiana the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,010 to $50,190. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Indiana is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $33,874 from $40,910. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 404 of 493 locally.
- This $36,746 adjusted figure, worked from $40,910, 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 404 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 404 of 493 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 $42,750 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,010 at the tenth percentile, $50,190 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Indiana is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $36,746 in national terms.
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; Indiana then takes its own share, leaving $33,874.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 Indiana is $42,750. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($36,010 to $50,190) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Indiana rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Indiana'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 $36,746 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 $33,874 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Indiana 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.