Web and Digital Interface Designers in Mississippi
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,340
after federal, FICA and Mississippi tax
Tax takes
$9,210
19.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$45,067
Mississippi costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Mississippi — 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
$48,550
Kept after tax
$39,340
Worth in national money
$45,067
State rank
46
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Mississippi pays this job a middle wage of $48,550, 46 of 46 states and about 53.32% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 486 occupations Mississippi reports figures for, this is number 247.
- Cheaper living works in this state's favor. From $48,550 you keep $39,340 after tax, and local prices stretch that to the equivalent of $45,067 at national prices. Averages run higher here, $62,650, since top earners drag the number up.
- Mississippi's $48,550 median for web and digital interface designers places it 46 of 46 states, about 53.32% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- In Mississippi's occupational distribution, web and digital interface designers sits at 247 of 486 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Retained pay in Mississippi is $39,340 after the full tax stack, from $48,550. Because the state's price level runs below the national average, the price-adjusted equivalent is $45,067 — a real-terms figure describing purchasing power rather than compensation, and not a number that appears on any pay stub. Mean pay of $62,650 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Web and Digital Interface Designers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $41,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,550 |
| Top tenth earn over | $96,190 |
| This salary | $48,550 |
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 Mississippi | $39,340 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,190 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,680 |
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 | $46,248 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,241 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 87 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Mississippi earn less than $48,550. The published range is $41,180 up to $96,190, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Mississippi the take-home figure of $39,340, from $48,550, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 247 of 486 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $45,067, the adjusted value of that $48,550 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Mississippi. 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 247 of 486 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for web and digital interface designers in Mississippi the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $41,180 to $96,190. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Mississippi is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $39,340 from $48,550. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 247 of 486 locally.
- This $45,067 adjusted figure, worked from $48,550, 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 247 of 486 in the state. The occupation ranks 247 of 486 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $62,650, 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 $41,180 at the bottom tenth to $96,190 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
More than the figure suggests. Prices in Mississippi sit below the national level, so take-home here stretches like $45,067 would elsewhere. The wage is the same; the ground it covers is larger.
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 Mississippi adds its own income tax on top — which is why $39,340 of this wage survives to your account.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 46 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 Mississippi is $62,650. 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 ($41,180) and the ninetieth ($96,190) 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?
Mississippi'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 $45,067 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 $39,340 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Mississippi 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.