Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$54,174
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$10,536
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$52,367
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
$64,710
Kept after tax
$54,174
Worth in national money
$52,367
State rank
34
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Florida is 34 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $64,710. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Florida, this sits in the middle: 160 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 $64,710, tax leaves $54,174 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $52,367 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $69,090, since top earners drag the number up.
- Florida ranks 34 of 51 for executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants at $64,710. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants ranks 160 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, $54,174 remains from the Florida median of $64,710 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $52,367 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $69,090 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,830 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,710 |
| Top tenth earn over | $99,220 |
| This salary | $64,710 |
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 | $54,174 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $54,174 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,383 |
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 | $64,710 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,091 |
| 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 executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants in Florida earn under $64,710 and half over. The published range runs $42,830 at the tenth percentile to $99,220 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $54,174 take-home in Florida comes from $64,710. 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 160 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $52,367, the adjusted value of that $64,710 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 160 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants in Florida, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $42,830 to $99,220; 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 $54,174, from $64,710, 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 160 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 34 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $52,367 — the adjusted value of that $64,710 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 160 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 $69,090, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $42,830, the highest tenth $99,220, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $52,367 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $54,174 of this wage reaches your account, because Florida takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $69,090. 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 ($42,830) and the ninetieth ($99,220) 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 $52,367 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 $54,174 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.