Radiation Therapists in West Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$56,804
after federal, FICA and West Virginia tax
Tax takes
$14,786
20.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,276
West Virginia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in West Virginia — 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
$71,590
Kept after tax
$56,804
Worth in national money
$63,276
State rank
46
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for radiation therapists is on the low side in West Virginia. The middle earner gets $71,590. That is 46 of 46 states, and about 32.02% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 473 occupations West Virginia reports, radiation therapists comes in at 115 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $71,590 you keep $56,804 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $63,276 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $78,310, since top earners drag the number up.
- For radiation therapists, West Virginia sits in the lower band at $71,590, ranking 46 of 46 and trailing the national median by about 32.02%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Radiation therapists ranks 115 of 473 occupations by median in West Virginia, 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 West Virginia is $56,804 after the full tax stack, from $71,590. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $63,276 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $78,310 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 | $54,880 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $71,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $106,140 |
| This salary | $71,590 |
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 West Virginia | $56,804 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $59,194 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,361 |
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 | $68,193 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,262 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of radiation therapists in West Virginia earn under $71,590 and half over. The published range runs $54,880 at the tenth percentile to $106,140 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $56,804 take-home in West Virginia comes from $71,590. 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 115 of 473.
- Two cautions on $63,276, the adjusted value of that $71,590 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of West Virginia. 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 115 of 473 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for radiation therapists in West Virginia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $54,880 to $106,140; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $56,804, from $71,590, assumes a single West Virginia 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 115 of 473 locally, and the state ranks 46 of 46 for it.
- This $63,276 adjusted figure, worked from $71,590, 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 115 of 473 in the state. The occupation ranks 115 of 473 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $78,310 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $54,880 at the bottom tenth to $106,140 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in West Virginia sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $63,276 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and West Virginia's own levy, $56,804 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 46 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 West Virginia is $78,310. 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 ($54,880 to $106,140) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to West Virginia rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
West Virginia'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 $63,276 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 $56,804 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and West Virginia 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.