Residential Advisors in New Jersey
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,561
after federal, FICA and New Jersey tax
Tax takes
$7,319
16.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,578
New Jersey costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New Jersey — 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
$43,880
Kept after tax
$36,561
Worth in national money
$33,578
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for residential advisors is strong here. New Jersey's middle earner gets $43,880, putting the state 17 of 51 — about 3.88% ahead of the national figure.
- Within New Jersey this is lower-paid work. Of 490 occupations the state publishes figures for, residential advisors ranks 413. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- New Jersey is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $43,880 the take-home is $36,561; in national-average money that behaves like $33,578. The average comes to $48,560, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For residential advisors, New Jersey sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $43,880, ranking 17 of 51 and running about 3.88% 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.
- Against every occupation New Jersey reports, residential advisors ranks 413 of 490, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Take-home for residential advisors in New Jersey, on $43,880, is $36,561; deflated by the state's price level, $33,578. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $48,560 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Residential Advisors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $43,880 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,100 |
| This salary | $43,880 |
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 New Jersey | $36,561 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $37,438 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,948 |
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 | $42,789 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,984 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $43,880 as a midpoint for New Jersey, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,550 and the ninetieth is $77,100 — 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 New Jersey's $36,561, worked from $43,880. 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 413 of 490.
- Two cautions on $33,578, the adjusted value of that $43,880 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New Jersey. 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 413 of 490 locally.
- The New Jersey median of $43,880 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,550 to $77,100. 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 New Jersey take-home of $36,561, on $43,880 for work ranking 413 of 490 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 413 of 490 in the state.
- This $33,578 adjusted figure, worked from $43,880, 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 413 of 490 in the state. The occupation ranks 413 of 490 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $48,560, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $36,550 and the top tenth $77,100 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. New Jersey costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $33,578 rather than its face figure.
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 New Jersey adds its own income tax on top — which is why $36,561 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 New Jersey is $48,560. 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 ($36,550) and the ninetieth ($77,100) 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?
New Jersey's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $33,578 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $36,561 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New Jersey 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.