School Bus Monitors in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$25,723
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$3,577
12.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$26,470
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$29,300
Kept after tax
$25,723
Worth in national money
$26,470
State rank
40
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for school bus monitors is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $29,300. That is 40 of 50 states, and about 16.52% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Texas publishes, school bus monitors lands at 480. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $29,300, take-home of $25,723 is worth roughly $26,470 in national money. The average comes to $29,600, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For school bus monitors, Texas sits in the lower band at $29,300, ranking 40 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 16.52%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Texas, this work ranks 480 of 493 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.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for school bus monitors, whose median is $29,300, the adjusted figure of $26,470 differs little from $25,723 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $29,600 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 | $23,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $29,300 |
| Top tenth earn over | $37,400 |
| This salary | $29,300 |
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 Texas | $25,723 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $25,723 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,606 |
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 | $29,300 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,068 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $29,300. The published range is $23,360 up to $37,400, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $25,723 take-home in Texas comes from $29,300. 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 480 of 493.
- Two cautions on $26,470, the adjusted value of that $29,300 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 480 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for school bus monitors in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $23,360 to $37,400. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $25,723, from $29,300, assumes a single Texas 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 480 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 40 of 50 for it.
- This $26,470 adjusted figure, worked from $29,300, 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 480 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 480 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $23,360 at the tenth percentile, $37,400 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 $26,470.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $25,723 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 ($23,360 to $37,400) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Texas'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 $26,470 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $25,723 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
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.