Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,080
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$12,770
17.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,342
Washington costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Washington — 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
$72,850
Kept after tax
$60,080
Worth in national money
$55,342
State rank
13
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Washington is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $72,850, which ranks 13 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 16.8% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Washington, this sits in the middle: 247 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $72,850 the take-home is $60,080. But Washington costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $55,342 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $80,080, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Washington ranks 13 of 50 states publishing a median for tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents, at $72,850 — about 16.8% 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.
- Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents ranks 247 of 493 occupations in Washington 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 after federal, FICA and Washington income tax is $60,080 for tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents, from $72,850. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $55,342. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $80,080 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,140 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $72,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $122,390 |
| This salary | $72,850 |
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 Washington | $60,080 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,080 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,485 |
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 | $72,850 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,633 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $72,850 as a midpoint for Washington, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $56,140 and the ninetieth is $122,390 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $60,080 take-home in Washington comes from $72,850. 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 247 of 493.
- Two cautions on $55,342, the adjusted value of that $72,850 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Washington. 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 247 of 493 locally.
- The Washington median of $72,850 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $56,140 to $122,390. 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 $60,080, from $72,850, assumes a single Washington 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 247 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 13 of 50 for it.
- This $55,342 adjusted figure, worked from $72,850, 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 247 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 247 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 $80,080, 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 $56,140 and the top tenth $122,390 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Washington costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $55,342 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $60,080 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 50 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 Washington is $80,080. 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 ($56,140) and the ninetieth ($122,390) 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?
Washington's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $55,342 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Washington levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $60,080 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.