School Bus Monitors in Oregon
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,015
after federal, FICA and Oregon tax
Tax takes
$8,885
21.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$30,571
Oregon costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Oregon — 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
$40,900
Kept after tax
$32,015
Worth in national money
$30,571
State rank
3
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Oregon is one of the better-paying states for school bus monitors. The middle earner takes $40,900, which ranks 3 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 16.52% above the national middle.
- Against 489 occupations Oregon publishes, school bus monitors lands at 444. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Oregon is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $40,900 the take-home is $32,015; in national-average money that behaves like $30,571. The average comes to $41,810, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Oregon ranks 3 of 50 states publishing a median for school bus monitors, at $40,900 — about 16.52% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Within Oregon, this work ranks 444 of 489 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Take-home for school bus monitors in Oregon, on $40,900, is $32,015; deflated by the state's price level, $30,571. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $41,810 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: School Bus Monitors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,620 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,900 |
| Top tenth earn over | $51,310 |
| This salary | $40,900 |
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 Oregon | $32,015 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $35,043 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,491 |
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 | $37,131 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,640 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 105 |
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 school bus monitors in Oregon earn under $40,900 and half over. The published range runs $34,620 at the tenth percentile to $51,310 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $32,015 take-home in Oregon comes from $40,900. 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 444 of 489.
- Two cautions on $30,571, the adjusted value of that $40,900 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Oregon. 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 444 of 489 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for school bus monitors in Oregon, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $34,620 to $51,310; 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.
- Retained pay of $32,015, from $40,900, assumes a single Oregon 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 444 of 489 locally, and the state ranks 3 of 50 for it.
- This $30,571 adjusted figure, worked from $40,900, 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 444 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 444 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $34,620 at the tenth percentile, $51,310 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Oregon costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $30,571 rather than its face figure.
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 Oregon's own levy, $32,015 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,620 to $51,310) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Oregon rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Oregon's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $30,571 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 $32,015 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Oregon 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.