Sales Managers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$104,236
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$31,784
23.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$107,266
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$136,020
Kept after tax
$104,236
Worth in national money
$107,266
State rank
24
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Texas is 24 of 50 states for sales managers, with a middle wage of $136,020. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Texas reports, sales managers comes in at 18 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $136,020, take-home of $104,236 is worth roughly $107,266 in national money. The average comes to $154,120, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Texas ranks 24 of 50 for sales managers at $136,020. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Sales managers ranks 18 of 493 occupations by median in Texas, 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.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for sales managers, whose median is $136,020, the adjusted figure of $107,266 differs little from $104,236 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $154,120 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Sales Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $68,750 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $136,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $268,450 |
| This salary | $136,020 |
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 Texas | $104,236 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $104,236 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$6,508 |
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 | $136,020 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$9,851 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $136,020 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $68,750 and the ninetieth is $268,450 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $104,236, from $136,020, 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 18 of 493 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $107,266 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 18.
- The Texas median of $136,020 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $68,750 to $268,450. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $104,236 from $136,020. 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 18 of 493 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $107,266, worked from $136,020, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Texas address, on work sitting at 18 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 $154,120, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $68,750 at the bottom tenth to $268,450 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $107,266 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $104,236 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 50 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 Texas is $154,120. 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 ($68,750) and the ninetieth ($268,450) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Texas'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 $107,266 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $104,236 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.