School Psychologists in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$67,706
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$15,984
19.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$69,674
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
$83,690
Kept after tax
$67,706
Worth in national money
$69,674
State rank
26
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas sits in the middle of the pack for school psychologists. The median is $83,690, ranking 26 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Texas reports, school psychologists comes in at 98 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $83,690 the take-home is $67,706, which is worth about $69,674 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $88,680, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Texas occupies the middle band for school psychologists: a median of $83,690, ranking 26 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- School psychologists ranks 98 of 493 occupations by median in Texas, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for school psychologists on its $83,690 median: $67,706 retained after tax becomes $69,674 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $88,680 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: School Psychologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $67,650 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $83,690 |
| Top tenth earn over | $116,180 |
| This salary | $83,690 |
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 | $67,706 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $67,706 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$4,228 |
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 | $83,690 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$6,217 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $83,690 as a midpoint for Texas, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $67,650 and the ninetieth is $116,180 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $67,706, from $83,690, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 98 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $69,674, the adjusted value of that $83,690 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 98 of 493 locally.
- The Texas median of $83,690 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $67,650 to $116,180. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $67,706 from $83,690. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 98 of 493 locally.
- This $69,674 adjusted figure, worked from $83,690, 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 98 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 98 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $88,680, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $67,650 at the bottom tenth to $116,180 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Texas sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $69,674 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $67,706 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 Texas is $88,680. 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 ($67,650 to $116,180) 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 $69,674 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 $67,706 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.