Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,817
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$7,513
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,421
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
$49,330
Kept after tax
$41,817
Worth in national money
$40,421
State rank
26
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Florida is 26 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $49,330. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 285 among 493 occupations Florida publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $49,330, tax leaves $41,817 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $40,421 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $52,590, since top earners drag the number up.
- Florida ranks 26 of 51 for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks at $49,330. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Position 285 of 493 in Florida places bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $41,817 remains from the Florida median of $49,330 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $40,421 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $52,590 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,680 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $72,260 |
| This salary | $49,330 |
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 | $41,817 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,817 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,611 |
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 | $49,330 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,158 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
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 bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks in Florida earn under $49,330 and half over. The published range runs $36,680 at the tenth percentile to $72,260 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $41,817, from $49,330, 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 285 of 493 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $40,421 uses one figure for the whole of Florida. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 285.
- Figures are distribution medians for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks in Florida, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,680 to $72,260; 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.
- Take-home for Florida is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $41,817 from $49,330. 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 285 of 493 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $40,421, worked from $49,330, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Florida address, on work sitting at 285 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $52,590, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $36,680 and the top tenth $72,260 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $40,421 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $41,817 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 $52,590. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($36,680) and the ninetieth ($72,260) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $40,421 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 $41,817 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.