Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers in Virginia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$86,555
after federal, FICA and Virginia tax
Tax takes
$32,585
27.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$85,912
Virginia costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Virginia — 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
$119,140
Kept after tax
$86,555
Worth in national money
$85,912
State rank
12
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Virginia's middle earner gets $119,140, putting the state 12 of 51 — about 11.11% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 489 occupations Virginia reports, this job comes in at 49 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- No great distortion either way. Virginia costs about what the country costs, so from $119,140, take-home of $86,555 is worth roughly $85,912 in national money. The average comes to $130,290, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For transportation, storage, and distribution managers, Virginia sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $119,140, ranking 12 of 51 and running about 11.11% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Transportation, storage, and distribution managers ranks 49 of 489 occupations by median in Virginia, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Price parity in Virginia is near the national base, so for transportation, storage, and distribution managers, whose median is $119,140, the adjusted figure of $85,912 differs little from $86,555 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $130,290 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $77,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $119,140 |
| Top tenth earn over | $205,640 |
| This salary | $119,140 |
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 Virginia | $86,555 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $92,645 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$9,427 |
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 | $110,483 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$13,021 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $119,140 as a midpoint for Virginia, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $77,010 and the ninetieth is $205,640 — 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 Virginia's $86,555, worked from $119,140. 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 49 of 489.
- Two cautions on $85,912, the adjusted value of that $119,140 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Virginia. 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 49 of 489 locally.
- The Virginia median of $119,140 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $77,010 to $205,640. 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 Virginia take-home of $86,555, on $119,140 for work ranking 49 of 489 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 49 of 489 in the state.
- This $85,912 adjusted figure, worked from $119,140, 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 49 of 489 in the state. The occupation ranks 49 of 489 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $130,290, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $77,010 at the bottom tenth to $205,640 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Virginia costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $85,912 rather than its face figure.
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 Virginia adds its own income tax on top — which is why $86,555 of this wage survives to your account.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 Virginia is $130,290. 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 ($77,010) and the ninetieth ($205,640) 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?
Virginia's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $85,912 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 $86,555 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Virginia 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.