Dental Laboratory Technicians in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$50,221
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$9,569
16.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$48,545
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
$59,790
Kept after tax
$50,221
Worth in national money
$48,545
State rank
6
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Florida's middle earner gets $59,790, putting the state 6 of 46 — about 20.52% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Florida, this sits in the middle: 210 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $59,790 the take-home is $50,221; in national-average money that behaves like $48,545. The average lands at $59,520, below the middle of the range.
- For dental laboratory technicians, Florida sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $59,790, ranking 6 of 46 and running about 20.52% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Dental laboratory technicians ranks 210 of 493 occupations in Florida by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Take-home for dental laboratory technicians in Florida, on $59,790, is $50,221; deflated by the state's price level, $48,545. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $59,520 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Dental Laboratory Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,750 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $59,790 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,010 |
| This salary | $59,790 |
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 | $50,221 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $50,221 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,136 |
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 | $59,790 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,792 |
| 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 $59,790. The published range is $36,750 up to $78,010, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $50,221, from $59,790, 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 210 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $48,545, the adjusted value of that $59,790 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Florida. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 210 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for dental laboratory technicians in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $36,750 to $78,010. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Florida is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $50,221 from $59,790. 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 210 of 493 locally.
- This $48,545 adjusted figure, worked from $59,790, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 210 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 210 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,750 at the tenth percentile, $78,010 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 $48,545 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $50,221 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 46 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($36,750 to $78,010) 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 $48,545 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 $50,221 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.