Self-Enrichment Teachers in Maryland
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,576
after federal, FICA and Maryland tax
Tax takes
$10,054
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,990
Maryland costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Maryland — 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
$51,630
Kept after tax
$41,576
Worth in national money
$39,990
State rank
10
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for self-enrichment teachers is strong here. Maryland's middle earner gets $51,630, putting the state 10 of 51 — about 10.32% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Maryland, this sits in the middle: 322 of 489 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $51,630, tax leaves $41,576 — and because Maryland is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $39,990 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $63,530, since top earners drag the number up.
- For self-enrichment teachers, Maryland sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $51,630, ranking 10 of 51 and running about 10.32% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Self-enrichment teachers ranks 322 of 489 occupations in Maryland 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, $41,576 remains from the Maryland median of $51,630 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $39,990 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $63,530 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Self-Enrichment Teachers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,050 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,630 |
| Top tenth earn over | $106,600 |
| This salary | $51,630 |
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 Maryland | $41,576 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,665 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,944 |
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 | $49,030 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,979 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 104 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $51,630 as a midpoint for Maryland, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,050 and the ninetieth is $106,600 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Maryland's $41,576, worked from $51,630. 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 322 of 489.
- One number stands for prices across all of Maryland, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $39,990, the adjusted value of that $51,630 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 322 of 489 in the state.
- The Maryland median of $51,630 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,050 to $106,600. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Maryland take-home of $41,576, on $51,630 for work ranking 322 of 489 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 322 of 489 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Maryland, so $39,990 — the adjusted value of that $51,630 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 322 of 489 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 $63,530 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 $33,050 and the top tenth $106,600 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Maryland run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $39,990 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
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 Maryland's own levy, $41,576 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 Maryland is $63,530. 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 ($33,050) and the ninetieth ($106,600) 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?
Maryland's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $39,990 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 $41,576 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Maryland 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.
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.