Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers in Washington
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$104,564
after federal, FICA and Washington tax
Tax takes
$31,936
23.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$96,317
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
$136,500
Kept after tax
$104,564
Worth in national money
$96,317
State rank
2
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Washington's middle earner gets $136,500, putting the state 2 of 51 — about 27.3% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Washington reports, this job comes in at 37 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $136,500, tax leaves $104,564 — and because Washington is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $96,317 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $143,410, since top earners drag the number up.
- For transportation, storage, and distribution managers, Washington sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $136,500, ranking 2 of 51 and running about 27.3% 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 37 of 493 occupations by median in Washington, 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.
- After tax, $104,564 remains from the Washington median of $136,500 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $96,317 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $143,410 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $84,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $136,500 |
| Top tenth earn over | $202,070 |
| This salary | $136,500 |
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 | $104,564 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $104,564 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$11,286 |
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 | $136,500 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$16,008 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 109 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of transportation, storage, and distribution managers in Washington earn under $136,500 and half over. The published range runs $84,870 at the tenth percentile to $202,070 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Washington's $104,564, worked from $136,500. 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 37 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $96,317 uses one figure for the whole of Washington. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 37.
- Figures are distribution medians for transportation, storage, and distribution managers in Washington, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $84,870 to $202,070; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- The Washington take-home of $104,564, on $136,500 for work ranking 37 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 37 of 493 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $96,317, worked from $136,500, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Washington address, on work sitting at 37 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 $143,410, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $84,870 at the bottom tenth to $202,070 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Washington run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $96,317 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $104,564 of this wage reaches your account, because Washington takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 Washington is $143,410. 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 ($84,870) and the ninetieth ($202,070) 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 $96,317 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 $104,564 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.
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.