Purchasing Managers in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$110,301
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$45,059
29.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$114,066
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$155,360
Kept after tax
$110,301
Worth in national money
$114,066
State rank
13
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for purchasing managers is strong here. Georgia's middle earner gets $155,360, putting the state 13 of 50 — about 4.92% ahead of the national figure.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Georgia. It ranks 12 out of 492 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $155,360 you keep $110,301 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $114,066 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $163,270, since top earners drag the number up.
- For purchasing managers, Georgia sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $155,360, ranking 13 of 50 and running about 4.92% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Within Georgia, purchasing managers ranks 12 of 492 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Retained pay in Georgia is $110,301 after the full tax stack, from $155,360. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $114,066 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $163,270 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Purchasing Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $91,560 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $155,360 |
| Top tenth earn over | $250,120 |
| This salary | $155,360 |
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 Georgia | $110,301 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $117,455 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,803 |
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 | $144,894 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,672 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $155,360 as a midpoint for Georgia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $91,560 and the ninetieth is $250,120 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $110,301 take-home in Georgia comes from $155,360. 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 12 of 492.
- One number stands for prices across all of Georgia, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $114,066, the adjusted value of that $155,360 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 12 of 492 in the state.
- The Georgia median of $155,360 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $91,560 to $250,120. 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 $110,301, from $155,360, assumes a single Georgia 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 12 of 492 locally, and the state ranks 13 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Georgia, so $114,066 — the adjusted value of that $155,360 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 12 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 $163,270, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $91,560, the highest tenth $250,120, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Georgia sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $114,066 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 Georgia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $110,301 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 Georgia is $163,270. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($91,560) and the ninetieth ($250,120) 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?
Georgia'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 $114,066 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 $110,301 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.