Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers in New York
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,781
after federal, FICA and New York tax
Tax takes
$12,599
20.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,325
New York costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in New York — 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
$61,380
Kept after tax
$48,781
Worth in national money
$45,325
State rank
16
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- New York sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $61,380, ranking 16 of 47 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in New York, this sits in the middle: 282 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- New York is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $61,380 the take-home is $48,781; in national-average money that behaves like $45,325. The average comes to $70,040, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- New York occupies the middle band for title examiners, abstractors, and searchers: a median of $61,380, ranking 16 of 47. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers ranks 282 of 493 occupations in New York 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.
- Take-home for title examiners, abstractors, and searchers in New York, on $61,380, is $48,781; deflated by the state's price level, $45,325. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $70,040 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $93,890 |
| This salary | $61,380 |
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 New York | $48,781 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,499 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,671 |
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 | $57,998 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,277 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $61,380 as a midpoint for New York, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $50,640 and the ninetieth is $93,890 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind New York's $48,781, worked from $61,380. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 282 of 493.
- Two cautions on $45,325, the adjusted value of that $61,380 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of New York. 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 282 of 493 locally.
- The New York median of $61,380 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $50,640 to $93,890. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The New York take-home of $48,781, on $61,380 for work ranking 282 of 493 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 282 of 493 in the state.
- This $45,325 adjusted figure, worked from $61,380, 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 282 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 282 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 $70,040, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $50,640 and the top tenth $93,890, so most people doing this work in New York sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $45,325 of national purchasing power.
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 New York adds its own income tax on top — which is why $48,781 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 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 New York is $70,040. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($50,640 to $93,890) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to New York rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
New York's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $45,325 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $48,781 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and New York 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.