Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,515
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$7,195
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,693
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$47,710
Kept after tax
$40,515
Worth in national money
$41,693
State rank
15
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Texas pays this job a middle wage of $47,710, ranking 15 of 49 states and sitting about 2.87% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Texas reports figures for, this is number 302.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $47,710 the take-home is $40,515, which is worth about $41,693 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average matches the middle here, at $47,710.
- Texas's median for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping is $47,710, about 2.87% above the national figure and 15 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- In Texas's occupational distribution, weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping sits at 302 of 493 — 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.
- Texas's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping on its $47,710 median: $40,515 retained after tax becomes $41,693 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. Mean and median coincide at $47,710, so the distribution is symmetric about its midpoint.
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Pay band: Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,710 |
| Top tenth earn over | $59,140 |
| This salary | $47,710 |
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 Texas | $40,515 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $40,515 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$2,530 |
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 | $47,710 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$3,257 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 vs 97 |
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 weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping in Texas earn under $47,710 and half over. The published range runs $34,870 at the tenth percentile to $59,140 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $40,515 take-home in Texas comes from $47,710. 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 302 of 493.
- Two cautions on $41,693, the adjusted value of that $47,710 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Texas. 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 302 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $34,870 to $59,140; 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.
- Retained pay of $40,515, from $47,710, assumes a single Texas 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 302 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 15 of 49 for it.
- This $41,693 adjusted figure, worked from $47,710, 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 302 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 302 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $34,870 at the bottom tenth to $59,140 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $41,693.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $40,515 survives, because Texas levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,870 to $59,140) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Texas'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 $41,693 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $40,515 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.
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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.