Skincare Specialists in Mississippi
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,698
after federal, FICA and Mississippi tax
Tax takes
$7,462
18.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,603
Mississippi costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Mississippi — 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
$41,160
Kept after tax
$33,698
Worth in national money
$38,603
State rank
33
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for skincare specialists is on the low side in Mississippi. The middle earner gets $41,160. That is 33 of 49 states, and about 9.2% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Mississippi, this sits in the middle: 320 of 486 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $41,160 you keep $33,698 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $38,603 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $61,810, since top earners drag the number up.
- For skincare specialists, Mississippi sits in the lower band at $41,160, ranking 33 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 9.2%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Skincare specialists ranks 320 of 486 occupations in Mississippi 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.
- Retained pay in Mississippi is $33,698 after the full tax stack, from $41,160. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $38,603 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $61,810 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Skincare Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $20,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $41,160 |
| Top tenth earn over | $140,920 |
| This salary | $41,160 |
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 Mississippi | $33,698 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $35,252 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,327 |
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 | $39,225 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,814 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $41,160 as a midpoint for Mississippi, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $20,960 and the ninetieth is $140,920 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $33,698 take-home in Mississippi comes from $41,160. 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 320 of 486.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $38,603 uses one figure for the whole of Mississippi. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 486 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 320.
- The Mississippi median of $41,160 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $20,960 to $140,920. 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 $33,698, from $41,160, assumes a single Mississippi 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 320 of 486 locally, and the state ranks 33 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $38,603, worked from $41,160, 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 Mississippi address, on work sitting at 320 of 486 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $61,810, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $20,960, the highest tenth $140,920, 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 Mississippi sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $38,603 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Mississippi adds its own income tax on top — which is why $33,698 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 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 Mississippi is $61,810. 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 ($20,960) and the ninetieth ($140,920) 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?
Mississippi'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 $38,603 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 $33,698 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Mississippi 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.