Purchasing Managers in Tennessee
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$104,947
after federal, FICA and Tennessee tax
Tax takes
$32,113
23.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$113,437
Tennessee costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Tennessee — 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
$137,060
Kept after tax
$104,947
Worth in national money
$113,437
State rank
23
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Tennessee pays purchasing managers around $137,060 at the midpoint, 23 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 491 occupations Tennessee reports, purchasing managers comes in at 10 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $137,060 you keep $104,947 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $113,437 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $153,620, since top earners drag the number up.
- For purchasing managers the Tennessee median is $137,060, ranking 23 of 50 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Purchasing managers ranks 10 of 491 occupations by median in Tennessee, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Retained pay in Tennessee is $104,947 after the full tax stack, from $137,060. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $113,437 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $153,620 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 | $90,340 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $137,060 |
| Top tenth earn over | $228,230 |
| This salary | $137,060 |
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 Tennessee | $104,947 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $104,947 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,440 |
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 | $137,060 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$7,734 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 93 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Tennessee earn less than $137,060. The published range is $90,340 up to $228,230, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Tennessee's $104,947, worked from $137,060. 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 10 of 491.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $113,437 uses one figure for the whole of Tennessee. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 491 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 10.
- Reported values are medians; for purchasing managers in Tennessee the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $90,340 to $228,230. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Tennessee take-home of $104,947, on $137,060 for work ranking 10 of 491 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 10 of 491 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $113,437, worked from $137,060, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Tennessee address, on work sitting at 10 of 491 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $153,620, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $90,340 at the bottom tenth to $228,230 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Tennessee sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $113,437 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $104,947 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 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 Tennessee is $153,620. 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 ($90,340) and the ninetieth ($228,230) 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?
Tennessee'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 $113,437 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Tennessee levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $104,947 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.