Real Estate Sales Agents in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$64,498
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$14,632
18.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$59,411
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$79,130
Kept after tax
$64,498
Worth in national money
$59,411
State rank
6
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Washington is one of the better-paying states for real estate sales agents. The middle earner takes $79,130, which ranks 6 of 48 states with published figures. That is about 49.78% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Real estate sales agents ranks 203 among 493 occupations Washington publishes pay for.
- Washington is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $79,130 the take-home is $64,498; in national-average money that behaves like $59,411. The average comes to $84,480, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Washington ranks 6 of 48 states publishing a median for real estate sales agents, at $79,130 — about 49.78% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Position 203 of 493 in Washington places real estate sales agents in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Take-home for real estate sales agents in Washington, on $79,130, is $64,498; deflated by the state's price level, $59,411. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $84,480 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Real Estate Sales Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,680 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,130 |
| Top tenth earn over | $114,090 |
| This salary | $79,130 |
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 Washington | $64,498 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,498 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,962 |
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 | $79,130 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,616 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
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 real estate sales agents in Washington earn under $79,130 and half over. The published range runs $48,680 at the tenth percentile to $114,090 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Washington the take-home figure of $64,498, from $79,130, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 203 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $59,411, the adjusted value of that $79,130 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. 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 203 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for real estate sales agents in Washington, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $48,680 to $114,090; 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.
- Take-home for Washington is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $64,498 from $79,130. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 203 of 493 locally.
- This $59,411 adjusted figure, worked from $79,130, 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 203 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 203 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $84,480, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $48,680 and the top tenth $114,090 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $59,411 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $64,498 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 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 Washington is $84,480. 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 ($48,680) and the ninetieth ($114,090) 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.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $59,411 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $64,498 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.