Psychiatric Technicians in North Carolina
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,714
after federal, FICA and North Carolina tax
Tax takes
$6,916
17.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,813
North Carolina costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in North 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
$40,630
Kept after tax
$33,714
Worth in national money
$35,813
State rank
33
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for psychiatric technicians is on the low side in North Carolina. The middle earner gets $40,630. That is 33 of 49 states, and about 9.97% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 489 occupations North Carolina publishes, psychiatric technicians lands at 390. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- North Carolina is cheaper than average, and that shows up here. From $40,630 the take-home is $33,714; adjusted for what things actually cost, it goes as far as $35,813 would nationally. The average comes to $42,270, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For psychiatric technicians, North Carolina sits in the lower band at $40,630, ranking 33 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 9.97%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within North Carolina, this work ranks 390 of 489 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Post-tax income for psychiatric technicians in North Carolina, on $40,630, is $33,714 — equivalent to $35,813 once regional price parity is applied. ⚠️ The adjustment uses a statewide index that describes no particular address; within-state price variation, concentrated in housing, routinely exceeds the difference between two states. At $42,270 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Psychiatric Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,900 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,630 |
| Top tenth earn over | $50,530 |
| This salary | $40,630 |
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 North Carolina | $33,714 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,826 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$26 |
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 | $39,246 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$31 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 94 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $40,630 as a midpoint for North Carolina, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,900 and the ninetieth is $50,530 — 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 North Carolina's $33,714, worked from $40,630. 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 390 of 489.
- Two cautions on $35,813, the adjusted value of that $40,630 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of North Carolina. 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 390 of 489 locally.
- The North Carolina median of $40,630 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,900 to $50,530. 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 North Carolina take-home of $33,714, on $40,630 for work ranking 390 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 390 of 489 in the state.
- This $35,813 adjusted figure, worked from $40,630, 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 390 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 390 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $42,270, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $33,900 and the top tenth $50,530, so most people doing this work in North Carolina sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in North Carolina sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $35,813 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 North Carolina adds its own income tax on top — which is why $33,714 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 North Carolina is $42,270. 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 ($33,900 to $50,530) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to North Carolina rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
North 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 $35,813 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 $33,714 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and North 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.
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.