Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents in Hawaii
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,520
after federal, FICA and Hawaii tax
Tax takes
$12,070
21.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,912
Hawaii costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Hawaii — 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
$57,590
Kept after tax
$45,520
Worth in national money
$41,912
State rank
42
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Hawaii is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $57,590, ranking 42 of 48 states — about 26.79% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Hawaii, this sits in the middle: 264 of 437 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $57,590, tax leaves $45,520 — and because Hawaii is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $41,912 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $97,360, since top earners drag the number up.
- Hawaii ranks 42 of 48 for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents, with a median of $57,590 — about 26.79% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents ranks 264 of 437 occupations in Hawaii by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- After tax, $45,520 remains from the Hawaii median of $57,590 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $41,912 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $97,360 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,260 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $268,080 |
| This salary | $57,590 |
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 Hawaii | $45,520 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,454 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,950 |
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 | $53,939 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,615 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
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 securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents in Hawaii earn under $57,590 and half over. The published range runs $47,260 at the tenth percentile to $268,080 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Hawaii the take-home figure of $45,520, from $57,590, 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 264 of 437 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $41,912 uses one figure for the whole of Hawaii. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 437 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 264.
- Figures are distribution medians for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents in Hawaii, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $47,260 to $268,080; 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.
- Take-home for Hawaii is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $45,520 from $57,590. 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 264 of 437 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $41,912, worked from $57,590, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Hawaii address, on work sitting at 264 of 437 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 $97,360 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $47,260, the highest tenth $268,080, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $41,912 of national purchasing power.
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 Hawaii's own levy, $45,520 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 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 Hawaii is $97,360. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($47,260) and the ninetieth ($268,080) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Hawaii's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $41,912 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 $45,520 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Hawaii 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.