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How these take-home figures are built

Every card on this page starts with a published wage, not an estimate. The national median for each occupation comes from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) programme, May 2025 national estimates — the most recent release. Each career page names the occupation's six-digit SOC code and the BLS series behind it, so any figure can be traced back to the source table.

That median is then run through the same engine used everywhere else on this site: 2026 federal brackets and the standard deduction, Social Security up to the annual wage base, Medicare with no cap, and then the rules of the state you select. Because the engine is shared, a registered nurse in Texas and a registered nurse in California are compared on identical federal assumptions; the only difference between them is state tax.

Reading a median wage honestly

• A median is not a starting salary. Half of the people in that occupation earn less than the figure shown, and newly qualified workers usually sit below it.
• OEWS leaves things out. Bonuses, overtime, profit shares and stock awards are not part of the wage estimate, and self-employed workers are outside the survey — which matters in occupations where commission or contract work is common.
• There is a publication lag. The May 2025 estimates were published in 2026, so they describe the labour market of a year ago.
• Location moves the number more than the job title. Federal tax and FICA are identical everywhere, but state income tax is not, and on a typical salary that difference alone is worth several thousand dollars a year. High-wage states often pair high state tax with high housing costs, which the city and state pages handle separately.

Comparing job offers with this page

Use the net figure, not the gross one. A $10,000 higher salary in a high-tax state can leave less in your account than the advertised increase suggests, and the gap widens once rent and commuting are counted.

A workable routine: pick the two or three occupations you are actually considering, open their pages, compare the states with the best take-home for each, then check that state's rent and cost of living before deciding. The methodology page lists every assumption — tax year, data sources and update dates — so you can see exactly what each figure contains.