Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,237
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$13,163
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$49,864
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
$63,400
Kept after tax
$50,237
Worth in national money
$49,864
State rank
38
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Virginia. The middle earner gets $63,400. That is 38 of 51 states, and about 12.04% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Virginia, this sits in the middle: 214 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $63,400, tax leaves $50,237, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $49,864 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $80,860, since top earners drag the number up.
- For sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products, Virginia sits in the lower band at $63,400, ranking 38 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 12.04%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products ranks 214 of 489 occupations in Virginia by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Because Virginia sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products — median $63,400 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $50,237 retained, $49,864 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $80,860 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,800 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,400 |
| Top tenth earn over | $148,700 |
| This salary | $63,400 |
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 | $50,237 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,122 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,803 |
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 | $59,810 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,808 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Virginia earn less than $63,400. The published range is $37,800 up to $148,700, 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 Virginia's $50,237, worked from $63,400. 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 214 of 489.
- Two cautions on $49,864, the adjusted value of that $63,400 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 214 of 489 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products in Virginia the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $37,800 to $148,700. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Virginia take-home of $50,237, on $63,400 for work ranking 214 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 214 of 489 in the state.
- This $49,864 adjusted figure, worked from $63,400, 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 214 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 214 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 $80,860, 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 $37,800 and the top tenth $148,700 — 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. Virginia costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $49,864 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Four deductions, stacked. The federal layer and the two payroll taxes apply wherever you work; Virginia then takes its own share, leaving $50,237.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 Virginia is $80,860. 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 ($37,800) and the ninetieth ($148,700) 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 $49,864 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 $50,237 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.