Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$56,516
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$16,124
22.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,096
Virginia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in 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
$72,640
Kept after tax
$56,516
Worth in national money
$56,096
State rank
15
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Virginia pays this job a middle wage of $72,640, ranking 15 of 51 states and sitting about 3.79% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 168 among 489 occupations Virginia publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $72,640, tax leaves $56,516, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $56,096 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $89,260, since top earners drag the number up.
- Virginia's median for sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel is $72,640, about 3.79% above the national figure and 15 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 168 of 489 in Virginia places sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel 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.
- Because Virginia sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel — median $72,640 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $56,516 retained, $56,096 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $89,260 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $72,640 |
| Top tenth earn over | $169,610 |
| This salary | $72,640 |
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 Virginia | $56,516 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $59,932 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,579 |
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 | $67,784 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,511 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
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 sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel in Virginia earn under $72,640 and half over. The published range runs $37,700 at the tenth percentile to $169,610 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Virginia's $56,516, worked from $72,640. 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 168 of 489.
- Two cautions on $56,096, the adjusted value of that $72,640 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of 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 168 of 489 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel in Virginia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,700 to $169,610; 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.
- The Virginia take-home of $56,516, on $72,640 for work ranking 168 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 168 of 489 in the state.
- This $56,096 adjusted figure, worked from $72,640, 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 168 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 168 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $89,260, 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 $37,700 and the top tenth $169,610 — 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 $56,096 of national purchasing power.
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 Virginia's own levy, $56,516 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 Virginia is $89,260. 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 ($37,700) and the ninetieth ($169,610) 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?
Virginia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $56,096 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 $56,516 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and 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.
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.