Compensation and Benefits Managers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$98,727
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$29,233
22.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$95,432
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
$127,960
Kept after tax
$98,727
Worth in national money
$95,432
State rank
27
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Florida sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $127,960, ranking 27 of 45 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Florida. It ranks 22 out of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $127,960, tax leaves $98,727 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $95,432 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $136,770, since top earners drag the number up.
- Florida occupies the middle band for compensation and benefits managers: a median of $127,960, ranking 27 of 45. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Within Florida, compensation and benefits managers ranks 22 of 493 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- After tax, $98,727 remains from the Florida median of $127,960 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $95,432 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $136,770 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Compensation and Benefits Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $79,310 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $127,960 |
| Top tenth earn over | $206,170 |
| This salary | $127,960 |
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 | $98,727 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $98,727 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,164 |
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 | $127,960 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,690 |
| 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 $127,960. The published range is $79,310 up to $206,170, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $98,727 take-home in Florida comes from $127,960. 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 22 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $95,432, the adjusted value of that $127,960 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 22 of 493 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for compensation and benefits managers in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $79,310 to $206,170. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $98,727, from $127,960, 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 22 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 27 of 45 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $95,432 — the adjusted value of that $127,960 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 22 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 $136,770 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $79,310, the highest tenth $206,170, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $95,432 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $98,727 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $136,770. 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 ($79,310) and the ninetieth ($206,170) 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 $95,432 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 $98,727 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.