Psychiatric Technicians in Ohio
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,269
after federal, FICA and Ohio tax
Tax takes
$5,871
15.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$36,236
Ohio costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Ohio — 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
$39,140
Kept after tax
$33,269
Worth in national money
$36,236
State rank
41
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Ohio pays psychiatric technicians a middle wage of $39,140, 41 of 49 states and about 13.27% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Ohio this is lower-paid work. Of 494 occupations the state publishes figures for, psychiatric technicians ranks 410. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $39,140 you keep $33,269 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $36,236 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $40,880, since top earners drag the number up.
- Ohio's $39,140 median for psychiatric technicians places it 41 of 49 states, about 13.27% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation Ohio reports, psychiatric technicians ranks 410 of 494, 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 Ohio is $33,269 after the full tax stack, from $39,140. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $36,236 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $40,880 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 | $31,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,140 |
| Top tenth earn over | $48,840 |
| This salary | $39,140 |
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 Ohio | $33,269 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,629 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,629 |
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 | $38,692 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,971 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $39,140 as a midpoint for Ohio, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,550 and the ninetieth is $48,840 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $33,269 take-home in Ohio comes from $39,140. 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 410 of 494.
- One number stands for prices across all of Ohio, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $36,236, the adjusted value of that $39,140 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 410 of 494 in the state.
- The Ohio median of $39,140 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,550 to $48,840. 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 $33,269, from $39,140, assumes a single Ohio 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 410 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 41 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Ohio, so $36,236 — the adjusted value of that $39,140 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 410 of 494 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $40,880, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $31,550 at the tenth percentile, $48,840 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Ohio is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $36,236 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; Ohio then takes its own share, leaving $33,269.
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 Ohio is $40,880. 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 ($31,550 to $48,840) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Ohio rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Ohio'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 $36,236 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 $33,269 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Ohio 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.