Clinical and Counseling Psychologists in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$69,057
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$16,553
19.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$66,752
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
$85,610
Kept after tax
$69,057
Worth in national money
$66,752
State rank
33
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Florida pays this job a middle wage of $85,610, 33 of 48 states and about 14.88% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Florida this is well-paid work. Of 493 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 85 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $85,610 the take-home is $69,057; in national-average money that behaves like $66,752. The average comes to $118,480, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Florida's $85,610 median for clinical and counseling psychologists places it 33 of 48 states, about 14.88% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Ranked against every occupation Florida publishes a median for, clinical and counseling psychologists sits 85 of 493 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Take-home for clinical and counseling psychologists in Florida, on $85,610, is $69,057; deflated by the state's price level, $66,752. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $118,480 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Clinical and Counseling Psychologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $55,480 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $85,610 |
| Top tenth earn over | $259,990 |
| This salary | $85,610 |
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 | $69,057 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $69,057 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,312 |
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 | $85,610 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,956 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $85,610 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $55,480 and the ninetieth is $259,990 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $69,057 take-home in Florida comes from $85,610. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 85 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $66,752, the adjusted value of that $85,610 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 85 of 493 in the state.
- The Florida median of $85,610 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $55,480 to $259,990. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $69,057, from $85,610, assumes a single Florida filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 85 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 33 of 48 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $66,752 — the adjusted value of that $85,610 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 85 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $118,480, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $55,480 and the top tenth $259,990 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Florida run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $66,752 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $69,057 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 48 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $118,480. 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 ($55,480) and the ninetieth ($259,990) 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 $66,752 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 $69,057 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.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.