Sales and Related Workers, All Other in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$35,007
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$10,073
22.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,429
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$45,080
Kept after tax
$35,007
Worth in national money
$33,429
State rank
25
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Oregon is 25 of 48 states for this job, with a middle wage of $45,080. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Oregon this is lower-paid work. Of 489 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 422. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $45,080, tax leaves $35,007 — and because Oregon is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $33,429 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $49,470, since top earners drag the number up.
- Oregon ranks 25 of 48 for sales and related workers, all other at $45,080. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation Oregon reports, sales and related workers, all other ranks 422 of 489, 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.
- After tax, $35,007 remains from the Oregon median of $45,080 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $33,429 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $49,470 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Sales and Related Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,120 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,080 |
| Top tenth earn over | $70,750 |
| This salary | $45,080 |
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 Oregon | $35,007 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,402 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,089 |
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 | $40,856 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,364 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Oregon earn less than $45,080. The published range is $33,120 up to $70,750, 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 Oregon's $35,007, worked from $45,080. 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 422 of 489.
- Two cautions on $33,429, the adjusted value of that $45,080 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Oregon. 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 422 of 489 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for sales and related workers, all other in Oregon the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $33,120 to $70,750. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Oregon take-home of $35,007, on $45,080 for work ranking 422 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 422 of 489 in the state.
- This $33,429 adjusted figure, worked from $45,080, 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 422 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 422 of 489 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 $49,470, 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 $33,120 and the top tenth $70,750 — 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 $33,429 of national purchasing power.
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 Oregon adds its own income tax on top — which is why $35,007 of this wage survives to your account.
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 48 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 Oregon is $49,470. 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 ($33,120) and the ninetieth ($70,750) 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?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $33,429 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 $35,007 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.