Environmental Engineers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$91,027
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$25,813
22.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$87,990
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
$116,840
Kept after tax
$91,027
Worth in national money
$87,990
State rank
8
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Florida pays environmental engineers a middle wage of $116,840, ranking 8 of 50 states and sitting about 9.08% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Florida reports, environmental engineers comes in at 31 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $116,840 the take-home is $91,027; in national-average money that behaves like $87,990. The average lands at $111,530, below the middle of the range.
- Florida's median for environmental engineers is $116,840, about 9.08% above the national figure and 8 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Environmental engineers ranks 31 of 493 occupations by median in Florida, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Take-home for environmental engineers in Florida, on $116,840, is $91,027; deflated by the state's price level, $87,990. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $111,530 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Environmental Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $57,240 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $116,840 |
| Top tenth earn over | $154,130 |
| This salary | $116,840 |
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 | $91,027 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $91,027 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,684 |
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 | $116,840 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,851 |
| 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 environmental engineers in Florida earn under $116,840 and half over. The published range runs $57,240 at the tenth percentile to $154,130 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $91,027 take-home in Florida comes from $116,840. 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 31 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $87,990, the adjusted value of that $116,840 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 31 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for environmental engineers in Florida, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $57,240 to $154,130; 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 $91,027, from $116,840, 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 31 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 8 of 50 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $87,990 — the adjusted value of that $116,840 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 31 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 $111,530, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $57,240, the highest tenth $154,130, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $87,990 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $91,027 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. 50 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 $111,530. 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 ($57,240) and the ninetieth ($154,130) 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 $87,990 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 $91,027 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.