Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary in Ohio
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,695
after federal, FICA and Ohio tax
Tax takes
$8,015
16.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$44,325
Ohio costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Ohio — 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
$48,710
Kept after tax
$40,695
Worth in national money
$44,325
State rank
18
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Ohio pays this job around $48,710 at the midpoint, 18 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 312 among 494 occupations Ohio publishes pay for.
- Here is where Ohio does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $48,710 you keep $40,695, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $44,325 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $55,560, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For teaching assistants, postsecondary the Ohio median is $48,710, ranking 18 of 45 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 312 of 494 in Ohio places teaching assistants, postsecondary 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 Ohio income tax, retained pay for teaching assistants, postsecondary on $48,710 is $40,695. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $44,325 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 $55,560 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $23,600 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,710 |
| Top tenth earn over | $92,200 |
| This salary | $48,710 |
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 Ohio | $40,695 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,318 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,805 |
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 | $47,934 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,183 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 92 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Ohio earn less than $48,710. The published range is $23,600 up to $92,200, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $40,695 take-home in Ohio comes from $48,710. 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 312 of 494.
- Two cautions on $44,325, the adjusted value of that $48,710 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Ohio. 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 312 of 494 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for teaching assistants, postsecondary in Ohio the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $23,600 to $92,200. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $40,695, from $48,710, assumes a single Ohio 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 312 of 494 locally, and the state ranks 18 of 45 for it.
- This $44,325 adjusted figure, worked from $48,710, 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 312 of 494 in the state. The occupation ranks 312 of 494 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 $55,560 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 $23,600 and the top tenth $92,200 — 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 $44,325.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Into four separate taxes, not one. Federal income tax, Social Security and Medicare apply everywhere, and Ohio adds its own income tax on top — which is why $40,695 of this wage survives to your account.
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 45 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 Ohio is $55,560. 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 ($23,600) and the ninetieth ($92,200) 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?
Ohio'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 $44,325 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 $40,695 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Ohio 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.
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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.