Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents in Missouri
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,303
after federal, FICA and Missouri tax
Tax takes
$17,197
21.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$66,806
Missouri costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Missouri — 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
$78,500
Kept after tax
$61,303
Worth in national money
$66,806
State rank
13
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Missouri pays this job a middle wage of $78,500, ranking 13 of 48 states and sitting about 0.2% above the national middle.
- Within Missouri this is well-paid work. Of 488 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 108 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $78,500 you keep $61,303 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $66,806 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $101,500, since top earners drag the number up.
- Missouri's median for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents is $78,500, about 0.2% above the national figure and 13 of 48 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Ranked against every occupation Missouri publishes a median for, securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents sits 108 of 488 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Retained pay in Missouri is $61,303 after the full tax stack, from $78,500. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $66,806 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $101,500 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 | $47,620 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $194,070 |
| This salary | $78,500 |
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 Missouri | $61,303 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,055 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$889 |
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 | $74,588 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$1,228 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
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 Missouri earn under $78,500 and half over. The published range runs $47,620 at the tenth percentile to $194,070 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Missouri the take-home figure of $61,303, from $78,500, 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 108 of 488 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $66,806 uses one figure for the whole of Missouri. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 488 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 108.
- Figures are distribution medians for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents in Missouri, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $47,620 to $194,070; 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 Missouri is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $61,303 from $78,500. 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 108 of 488 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $66,806, worked from $78,500, 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 Missouri address, on work sitting at 108 of 488 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 $101,500 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 $47,620 and the top tenth $194,070 — 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. Missouri is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $66,806 in national terms.
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 Missouri's own levy, $61,303 remains.
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 Missouri is $101,500. 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 ($47,620) and the ninetieth ($194,070) 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?
Missouri'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 $66,806 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 $61,303 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Missouri 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.