School Bus Monitors in Indiana
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$28,208
after federal, FICA and Indiana tax
Tax takes
$5,382
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$30,600
Indiana costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Indiana — 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
$33,590
Kept after tax
$28,208
Worth in national money
$30,600
State rank
32
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Indiana is 32 of 50 states for school bus monitors, with a middle wage of $33,590. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Indiana this is lower-paid work. Of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, school bus monitors ranks 462. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $33,590 you keep $28,208 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $30,600 at national prices. Here the average runs under the middle, at $33,300.
- Indiana ranks 32 of 50 for school bus monitors at $33,590. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation Indiana reports, school bus monitors ranks 462 of 493, 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.
- Retained pay in Indiana is $28,208 after the full tax stack, from $33,590. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $30,600 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $33,300 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: School Bus Monitors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $27,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $33,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $38,500 |
| This salary | $33,590 |
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 Indiana | $28,208 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $29,170 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$582 |
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 | $32,393 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$704 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Indiana earn less than $33,590. The published range is $27,640 up to $38,500, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $28,208 take-home in Indiana comes from $33,590. 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 462 of 493.
- Two cautions on $30,600, the adjusted value of that $33,590 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Indiana. 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 462 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for school bus monitors in Indiana the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $27,640 to $38,500. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $28,208, from $33,590, assumes a single Indiana 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 462 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 32 of 50 for it.
- This $30,600 adjusted figure, worked from $33,590, 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 462 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 462 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $27,640 at the tenth percentile, $38,500 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $30,600.
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; Indiana then takes its own share, leaving $28,208.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($27,640 to $38,500) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Indiana rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Indiana'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 $30,600 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 $28,208 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Indiana 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.