Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$64,034
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$14,436
18.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$65,895
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
$78,470
Kept after tax
$64,034
Worth in national money
$65,895
State rank
14
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $78,470, which ranks 14 of 48 states with published figures. That is about 0.24% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 126 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $78,470, tax leaves $64,034, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $65,895 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $107,450, since top earners drag the number up.
- Texas ranks 14 of 48 states publishing a median for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents, at $78,470 — about 0.24% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents ranks 126 of 493 occupations in Texas 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents — median $78,470 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $64,034 retained, $65,895 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $107,450 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 | $48,160 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,470 |
| Top tenth earn over | $214,220 |
| This salary | $78,470 |
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 | $64,034 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $64,034 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$3,998 |
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 | $78,470 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$5,880 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
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 Texas earn under $78,470 and half over. The published range runs $48,160 at the tenth percentile to $214,220 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Texas's $64,034, worked from $78,470. 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 126 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Texas, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $65,895, the adjusted value of that $78,470 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 126 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $48,160 to $214,220; 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.
- The Texas take-home of $64,034, on $78,470 for work ranking 126 of 493 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 126 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Texas, so $65,895 — the adjusted value of that $78,470 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 126 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $107,450, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $48,160, the highest tenth $214,220, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $65,895 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $64,034 of this wage reaches your account, because Texas takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 Texas is $107,450. 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 ($48,160) and the ninetieth ($214,220) 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?
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 $65,895 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 $64,034 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.
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.