Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,754
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$5,786
14.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,594
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
$40,540
Kept after tax
$34,754
Worth in national money
$33,594
State rank
43
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Florida. The middle earner gets $40,540. That is 43 of 47 states, and about 12.95% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Florida publishes, this job lands at 390. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $40,540, tax leaves $34,754 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $33,594 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $43,920, since top earners drag the number up.
- For cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders, Florida sits in the lower band at $40,540, ranking 43 of 47 and trailing the national median by about 12.95%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Florida, this work ranks 390 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.
- After tax, $34,754 remains from the Florida median of $40,540 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $33,594 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $43,920 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,410 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $40,540 |
| Top tenth earn over | $59,040 |
| This salary | $40,540 |
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 | $34,754 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,754 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,170 |
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 | $40,540 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,624 |
| 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 cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders in Florida earn under $40,540 and half over. The published range runs $33,410 at the tenth percentile to $59,040 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $34,754 take-home in Florida comes from $40,540. 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 390 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $33,594 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 390.
- Figures are distribution medians for cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders in Florida, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,410 to $59,040; 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.
- Retained pay of $34,754, from $40,540, 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 390 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 43 of 47 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $33,594, worked from $40,540, 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 390 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 $43,920, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $33,410 at the tenth percentile, $59,040 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 $33,594 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $34,754 survives, because Florida levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 47 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 $43,920. 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 ($33,410 to $59,040) 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 $33,594 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 $34,754 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.