Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$80,446
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$21,354
21.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$82,785
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
$101,800
Kept after tax
$80,446
Worth in national money
$82,785
State rank
10
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Texas is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $101,800, which ranks 10 of 49 states with published figures. That is about 0.68% above the national middle.
- Within Texas this is well-paid work. Of 493 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 60 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- No great distortion either way. Texas costs about what the country costs, so from $101,800, take-home of $80,446 is worth roughly $82,785 in national money. The average comes to $107,920, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Texas ranks 10 of 49 states publishing a median for social scientists and related workers, all other, at $101,800 — about 0.68% 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.
- Ranked against every occupation Texas publishes a median for, social scientists and related workers, all other sits 60 of 493 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Price parity in Texas is near the national base, so for social scientists and related workers, all other, whose median is $101,800, the adjusted figure of $82,785 differs little from $80,446 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $107,920 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $74,820 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $101,800 |
| Top tenth earn over | $156,560 |
| This salary | $101,800 |
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 | $80,446 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $80,446 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$5,023 |
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 | $101,800 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$7,387 |
| 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 social scientists and related workers, all other in Texas earn under $101,800 and half over. The published range runs $74,820 at the tenth percentile to $156,560 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $80,446 take-home in Texas comes from $101,800. 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 60 of 493.
- Two cautions on $82,785, the adjusted value of that $101,800 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 60 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for social scientists and related workers, all other in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $74,820 to $156,560; 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.
- Retained pay of $80,446, from $101,800, assumes a single Texas 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 60 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 10 of 49 for it.
- This $82,785 adjusted figure, worked from $101,800, 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 60 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 60 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 $107,920, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $74,820 and the top tenth $156,560 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $82,785.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $80,446 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 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 $107,920. 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 ($74,820) and the ninetieth ($156,560) 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 $82,785 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 $80,446 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.