Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents in Kentucky
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,724
after federal, FICA and Kentucky tax
Tax takes
$11,386
19.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,752
Kentucky costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Kentucky — 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
$59,110
Kept after tax
$47,724
Worth in national money
$52,752
State rank
40
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Kentucky pays this job a middle wage of $59,110, 40 of 48 states and about 24.85% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 223 among 491 occupations Kentucky publishes pay for.
- Here is where Kentucky does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $59,110 you keep $47,724, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $52,752 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $76,640, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Kentucky's $59,110 median for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents places it 40 of 48 states, about 24.85% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Position 223 of 491 in Kentucky places securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After federal, FICA and Kentucky income tax, retained pay for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents on $59,110 is $47,724. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $52,752 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $76,640 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,110 |
| Top tenth earn over | $127,820 |
| This salary | $59,110 |
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 Kentucky | $47,724 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $49,675 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,633 |
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 | $56,682 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,975 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $59,110 as a midpoint for Kentucky, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $45,640 and the ninetieth is $127,820 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $47,724 take-home in Kentucky comes from $59,110. 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 223 of 491.
- Two cautions on $52,752, the adjusted value of that $59,110 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Kentucky. 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 223 of 491 locally.
- The Kentucky median of $59,110 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $45,640 to $127,820. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $47,724, from $59,110, assumes a single Kentucky 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 223 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 40 of 48 for it.
- This $52,752 adjusted figure, worked from $59,110, 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 223 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 223 of 491 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 $76,640 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $45,640 and the top tenth $127,820 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Kentucky is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $52,752 in national terms.
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 Kentucky adds its own income tax on top — which is why $47,724 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 Kentucky is $76,640. 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 ($45,640) and the ninetieth ($127,820) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Kentucky'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 $52,752 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 $47,724 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Kentucky 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.