Radiation Therapists in Arkansas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,909
after federal, FICA and Arkansas tax
Tax takes
$17,041
21.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$71,564
Arkansas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arkansas — 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
$78,950
Kept after tax
$61,909
Worth in national money
$71,564
State rank
45
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Arkansas pays radiation therapists a middle wage of $78,950, 45 of 46 states and about 25.03% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 489 occupations Arkansas reports, radiation therapists comes in at 69 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $78,950 you keep $61,909 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $71,564 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $90,030, since top earners drag the number up.
- Arkansas's $78,950 median for radiation therapists places it 45 of 46 states, about 25.03% 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.
- Radiation therapists ranks 69 of 489 occupations by median in Arkansas, 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 Arkansas is $61,909 after the full tax stack, from $78,950. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $71,564 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $90,030 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Radiation Therapists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $62,300 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,950 |
| Top tenth earn over | $108,910 |
| This salary | $78,950 |
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 Arkansas | $61,909 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,371 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,322 |
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 | $75,450 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$7,351 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $78,950 as a midpoint for Arkansas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $62,300 and the ninetieth is $108,910 — 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 Arkansas's $61,909, worked from $78,950. 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 69 of 489.
- Two cautions on $71,564, the adjusted value of that $78,950 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Arkansas. 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 69 of 489 locally.
- The Arkansas median of $78,950 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $62,300 to $108,910. 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 Arkansas take-home of $61,909, on $78,950 for work ranking 69 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 69 of 489 in the state.
- This $71,564 adjusted figure, worked from $78,950, 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 69 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 69 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 $90,030, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $62,300 at the bottom tenth to $108,910 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Arkansas is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $71,564 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; Arkansas then takes its own share, leaving $61,909.
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 46 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 Arkansas is $90,030. 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 ($62,300 to $108,910) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Arkansas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Arkansas'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 $71,564 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 $61,909 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arkansas 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.