Tutors in Arizona
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,897
after federal, FICA and Arizona tax
Tax takes
$6,043
15.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,538
Arizona costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Arizona — 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
$38,940
Kept after tax
$32,897
Worth in national money
$32,538
State rank
27
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Arizona pays tutors around $38,940 at the midpoint, 27 of 50 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 491 occupations Arizona publishes, tutors lands at 434. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $38,940, tax leaves $32,897, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $32,538 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $47,610, since top earners drag the number up.
- For tutors the Arizona median is $38,940, ranking 27 of 50 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.
- Within Arizona, this work ranks 434 of 491 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Arizona sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for tutors — median $38,940 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $32,897 retained, $32,538 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $47,610 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Tutors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,580 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $38,940 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,220 |
| This salary | $38,940 |
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 Arizona | $32,897 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,468 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,904 |
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 | $38,229 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,302 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 101 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Arizona earn less than $38,940. The published range is $30,580 up to $77,220, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $32,897 take-home in Arizona comes from $38,940. 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 434 of 491.
- Two cautions on $32,538, the adjusted value of that $38,940 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Arizona. 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 434 of 491 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for tutors in Arizona the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $30,580 to $77,220. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $32,897, from $38,940, assumes a single Arizona 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 434 of 491 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 50 for it.
- This $32,538 adjusted figure, worked from $38,940, 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 434 of 491 in the state. The occupation ranks 434 of 491 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 $47,610, 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?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $30,580 and the top tenth $77,220 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Arizona costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $32,538 rather than its face figure.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Arizona's own levy, $32,897 remains.
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 Arizona is $47,610. 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 ($30,580) and the ninetieth ($77,220) 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?
Arizona's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $32,538 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 $32,897 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Arizona 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.