Skincare Specialists in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,752
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$7,498
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,966
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
$49,250
Kept after tax
$41,752
Worth in national money
$42,966
State rank
12
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for skincare specialists is strong here. Texas's middle earner gets $49,250, putting the state 12 of 49 — about 8.65% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Texas, this sits in the middle: 277 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $49,250 the take-home is $41,752, which is worth about $42,966 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $55,720, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For skincare specialists, Texas sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $49,250, ranking 12 of 49 and running about 8.65% 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.
- Skincare specialists ranks 277 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.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for skincare specialists on its $49,250 median: $41,752 retained after tax becomes $42,966 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $55,720 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Skincare Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $27,390 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,250 |
| Top tenth earn over | $84,180 |
| This salary | $49,250 |
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 | $41,752 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $41,752 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,607 |
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 | $49,250 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,357 |
| 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 skincare specialists in Texas earn under $49,250 and half over. The published range runs $27,390 at the tenth percentile to $84,180 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $41,752, from $49,250, 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 277 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $42,966, the adjusted value of that $49,250 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 277 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for skincare specialists in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $27,390 to $84,180; 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 Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $41,752 from $49,250. 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 277 of 493 locally.
- This $42,966 adjusted figure, worked from $49,250, 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 277 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 277 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $55,720, 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 $27,390, the highest tenth $84,180, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $42,966.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $41,752 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $55,720. 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 ($27,390) and the ninetieth ($84,180) 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 $42,966 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 $41,752 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.