Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products in Mississippi
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$58,678
after federal, FICA and Mississippi tax
Tax takes
$16,312
21.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$67,220
Mississippi costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Mississippi — 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
$74,990
Kept after tax
$58,678
Worth in national money
$67,220
State rank
47
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Mississippi pays this job a middle wage of $74,990, 47 of 49 states and about 28.53% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Mississippi. It ranks 96 out of 486 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $74,990 you keep $58,678 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $67,220 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $78,060, since top earners drag the number up.
- Mississippi's $74,990 median for sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products places it 47 of 49 states, about 28.53% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Within Mississippi, sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products ranks 96 of 486 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Retained pay in Mississippi is $58,678 after the full tax stack, from $74,990. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $67,220 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $78,060 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,750 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $74,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $123,010 |
| This salary | $74,990 |
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 Mississippi | $58,678 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,585 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,844 |
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 | $70,857 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,310 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $74,990 as a midpoint for Mississippi, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $46,750 and the ninetieth is $123,010 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $58,678 take-home in Mississippi comes from $74,990. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 96 of 486.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $67,220 uses one figure for the whole of Mississippi. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 486 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 96.
- The Mississippi median of $74,990 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $46,750 to $123,010. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $58,678, from $74,990, assumes a single Mississippi filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 96 of 486 locally, and the state ranks 47 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $67,220, worked from $74,990, 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 Mississippi address, on work sitting at 96 of 486 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $78,060, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $46,750, the highest tenth $123,010, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Mississippi sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $67,220 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Mississippi's own levy, $58,678 remains.
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 49 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 Mississippi is $78,060. 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 ($46,750) and the ninetieth ($123,010) 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?
Mississippi'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 $67,220 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $58,678 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Mississippi 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.