Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,423
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$7,417
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,041
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
$48,840
Kept after tax
$41,423
Worth in national money
$40,041
State rank
39
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Florida is among the lower-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $48,840, ranking 39 of 49 states — about 11.35% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Florida, this sits in the middle: 291 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $48,840, tax leaves $41,423 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $40,041 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $53,620, since top earners drag the number up.
- Florida ranks 39 of 49 for environmental science and protection technicians, including health, with a median of $48,840 — about 11.35% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Environmental science and protection technicians, including health ranks 291 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.
- After tax, $41,423 remains from the Florida median of $48,840 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $40,041 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $53,620 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,280 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,840 |
| Top tenth earn over | $74,170 |
| This salary | $48,840 |
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 | $41,423 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,423 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,586 |
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 | $48,840 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,128 |
| 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 science and protection technicians, including health in Florida earn under $48,840 and half over. The published range runs $39,280 at the tenth percentile to $74,170 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $41,423 take-home in Florida comes from $48,840. 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 291 of 493.
- Two cautions on $40,041, the adjusted value of that $48,840 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 291 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for environmental science and protection technicians, including health in Florida, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $39,280 to $74,170; 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 $41,423, from $48,840, 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 291 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 39 of 49 for it.
- This $40,041 adjusted figure, worked from $48,840, 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 291 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 291 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 $53,620 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $39,280 at the bottom tenth to $74,170 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $40,041 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $41,423 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 49 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 $53,620. 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 ($39,280 to $74,170) 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 $40,041 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 $41,423 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.