Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$33,870
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$5,570
14.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$32,740
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
$39,440
Kept after tax
$33,870
Worth in national money
$32,740
State rank
48
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Florida. The middle earner gets $39,440. That is 48 of 49 states, and about 14.87% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Florida publishes, this job lands at 400. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $39,440, tax leaves $33,870 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $32,740 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $41,940, since top earners drag the number up.
- For cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic, Florida sits in the lower band at $39,440, ranking 48 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 14.87%. 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 400 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, $33,870 remains from the Florida median of $39,440 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $32,740 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $41,940 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,440 |
| Top tenth earn over | $50,630 |
| This salary | $39,440 |
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 | $33,870 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $33,870 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,115 |
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 | $39,440 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,558 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $39,440 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,180 and the ninetieth is $50,630 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $33,870, from $39,440, 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 400 of 493 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $32,740, the adjusted value of that $39,440 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 400 of 493 in the state.
- The Florida median of $39,440 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,180 to $50,630. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Florida is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $33,870 from $39,440. 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 400 of 493 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $32,740 — the adjusted value of that $39,440 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 400 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 $41,940, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $33,180 at the bottom tenth to $50,630 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $32,740 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $33,870 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. 49 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 $41,940. 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 ($33,180 to $50,630) 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 $32,740 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 $33,870 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.