Texas · BLS May 2025
The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 29,150 substitute teachers, short-term working in Texas. Here is what they are paid, what the median leaves after federal and FICA tax, and what that is worth against local prices.
Median pay · Texas
$32,040A year, or $15.41 an hour.| Percentile | Annual | Hourly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentileEntry and lowest-paid | $22,870 | $10.99 |
| 25th percentile | $26,700 | $12.84 |
| MedianHalf earn more, half less | $32,040 | $15.41 |
| 75th percentile | $34,580 | $16.63 |
| 90th percentileMost experienced and senior | $39,090 | $18.79 |
| MeanThe average, pulled up by the top | $32,760 | $15.75 |
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A $32,040 salary in Texas, for one single filer taking the standard deduction in 2026.
Prices in Texas sit at 97.1 against a national average of 100, so $32,040 earned here buys what $33,012 buys at national average prices.
Common questions
The median wage for substitute teachers in Texas is $32,040 a year, or $15.41 an hour.
Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.
On the median wage of $32,040, one filer taking the standard deduction keeps about $27,924 a year, or roughly $2,327 a month.
That is after federal and FICA tax, an effective rate of 12.9%.
Texas levies no state income tax on wages, so nothing is withheld for it.
No. The median in Texas is 23.1% below the national median of $41,670.
Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Texas sit at 97.1 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.
It is 0.41 times the median household income of $78,476. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.
Prices in Texas run at 97.1 against a national average of 100, with rents at 96.5, so $32,040 here buys about what $33,012 buys at national average prices.
The top tenth earn $39,090 a year or more, against $22,870 at the bottom tenth.
Experience, specialism, employer and the part of Texas someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.
The survey counted 29,150 of these jobs in Texas for May 2025.
That makes the occupation 39% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.
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