Teachers and Instructors, All Other in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,255
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$7,865
15.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,512
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
$51,120
Kept after tax
$43,255
Worth in national money
$44,512
State rank
45
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for teachers and instructors, all other is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $51,120. That is 45 of 50 states, and about 22.71% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Teachers and instructors, all other ranks 261 among 493 occupations Texas publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $51,120, tax leaves $43,255, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $44,512 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $56,670, since top earners drag the number up.
- For teachers and instructors, all other, Texas sits in the lower band at $51,120, ranking 45 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 22.71%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 261 of 493 in Texas places teachers and instructors, all other 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for teachers and instructors, all other — median $51,120 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $43,255 retained, $44,512 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $56,670 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Teachers and Instructors, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,070 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,120 |
| Top tenth earn over | $90,020 |
| This salary | $51,120 |
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 | $43,255 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $43,255 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,701 |
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 | $51,120 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,477 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Texas earn less than $51,120. The published range is $30,070 up to $90,020, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Texas the take-home figure of $43,255, from $51,120, 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 261 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $44,512, the adjusted value of that $51,120 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 261 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for teachers and instructors, all other in Texas the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $30,070 to $90,020. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Texas is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $43,255 from $51,120. 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 261 of 493 locally.
- This $44,512 adjusted figure, worked from $51,120, 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 261 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 261 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 $56,670, 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 $30,070 and the top tenth $90,020 — 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 $44,512.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $43,255 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 Texas is $56,670. 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 ($30,070) and the ninetieth ($90,020) 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 $44,512 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 $43,255 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.