Amusement and Recreation Attendants in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$26,823
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$3,847
12.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$25,928
Florida costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Florida — 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
$30,670
Kept after tax
$26,823
Worth in national money
$25,928
State rank
22
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Florida pays this job around $30,670 at the midpoint, 22 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 493 occupations Florida publishes, this job lands at 483. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $30,670 the take-home is $26,823; in national-average money that behaves like $25,928. The average comes to $32,300, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For amusement and recreation attendants the Florida median is $30,670, ranking 22 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Within Florida, this work ranks 483 of 493 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Take-home for amusement and recreation attendants in Florida, on $30,670, is $26,823; deflated by the state's price level, $25,928. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $32,300 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Amusement and Recreation Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $27,390 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $30,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $38,540 |
| This salary | $30,670 |
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 Florida | $26,823 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $26,823 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,675 |
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 | $30,670 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,026 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Florida earn less than $30,670. The published range is $27,390 up to $38,540, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $26,823, from $30,670, 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 483 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $25,928, the adjusted value of that $30,670 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Florida. 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 483 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for amusement and recreation attendants in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $27,390 to $38,540. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Florida is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $26,823 from $30,670. 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 483 of 493 locally.
- This $25,928 adjusted figure, worked from $30,670, 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 483 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 483 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $32,300 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $27,390 at the tenth percentile, $38,540 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Florida costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $25,928 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $26,823 survives, because Florida levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 Florida is $32,300. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($27,390 to $38,540) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Florida rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Florida's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $25,928 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Florida levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $26,823 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.