Social and Community Service Managers in Alabama
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$56,603
after federal, FICA and Alabama tax
Tax takes
$15,707
21.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$62,914
Alabama costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Alabama — 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
$72,310
Kept after tax
$56,603
Worth in national money
$62,914
State rank
44
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Alabama pays this job a middle wage of $72,310, 44 of 51 states and about 10.05% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 124 among 482 occupations Alabama publishes pay for.
- Here is where Alabama does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $72,310 you keep $56,603, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $62,914 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $77,910, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Alabama's $72,310 median for social and community service managers places it 44 of 51 states, about 10.05% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Position 124 of 482 in Alabama places social and community service managers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After federal, FICA and Alabama income tax, retained pay for social and community service managers on $72,310 is $56,603. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $62,914 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $77,910 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Social and Community Service Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $72,310 |
| Top tenth earn over | $121,090 |
| This salary | $72,310 |
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 Alabama | $56,603 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $59,700 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,478 |
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 | $67,908 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,042 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 90 |
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 social and community service managers in Alabama earn under $72,310 and half over. The published range runs $46,010 at the tenth percentile to $121,090 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Alabama the take-home figure of $56,603, from $72,310, 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 124 of 482 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $62,914, the adjusted value of that $72,310 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Alabama. 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 124 of 482 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for social and community service managers in Alabama, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $46,010 to $121,090; 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 Alabama is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $56,603 from $72,310. 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 124 of 482 locally.
- This $62,914 adjusted figure, worked from $72,310, 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 124 of 482 in the state. The occupation ranks 124 of 482 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 $77,910 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 $46,010 and the top tenth $121,090 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Alabama sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $62,914 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Alabama's own levy, $56,603 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 Alabama is $77,910. 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 ($46,010) and the ninetieth ($121,090) 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?
Alabama'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 $62,914 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 $56,603 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Alabama 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.