School Bus Monitors in Vermont
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,482
after federal, FICA and Vermont tax
Tax takes
$6,538
16.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,613
Vermont costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Vermont — 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
$39,020
Kept after tax
$32,482
Worth in national money
$33,613
State rank
5
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for school bus monitors is strong here. Vermont's middle earner gets $39,020, putting the state 5 of 50 — about 11.17% ahead of the national figure.
- Measured against other jobs in Vermont, this one sits low: 418 of 453 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $39,020 you keep $32,482 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $33,613 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $40,470, since top earners drag the number up.
- For school bus monitors, Vermont sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $39,020, ranking 5 of 50 and running about 11.17% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- School bus monitors occupies position 418 of 453 in Vermont's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- Retained pay in Vermont is $32,482 after the full tax stack, from $39,020. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $33,613 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $40,470 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: School Bus Monitors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,900 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $54,530 |
| This salary | $39,020 |
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 Vermont | $32,482 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,533 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$895 |
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 | $37,712 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,082 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $39,020 as a midpoint for Vermont, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $34,900 and the ninetieth is $54,530 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Vermont's $32,482, worked from $39,020. 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 418 of 453.
- Two cautions on $33,613, the adjusted value of that $39,020 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Vermont. 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 418 of 453 locally.
- The Vermont median of $39,020 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $34,900 to $54,530. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Vermont take-home of $32,482, on $39,020 for work ranking 418 of 453 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 418 of 453 in the state.
- This $33,613 adjusted figure, worked from $39,020, 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 418 of 453 in the state. The occupation ranks 418 of 453 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $40,470 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $34,900 at the tenth percentile, $54,530 at the ninetieth.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Vermont sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $33,613 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Vermont adds its own income tax on top — which is why $32,482 of this wage survives to your account.
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.
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 Vermont is $40,470. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,900 to $54,530) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Vermont rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Vermont'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 $33,613 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 $32,482 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Vermont 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.