Tax after college

https://smartasset.com/taxes/income-taxes

Here’s a VERY basic calculator; state by state it will vary a lot.

TX you’ll walk home with 47,363; CA you’ll walk home with 44,795.

At “low incomes” you won’t vary more than 5k~, but it goes up a lot.

At 1 million income, you take home 545,515 in CA and 622,240 in TX