Fence Erectors in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,779
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$6,771
14.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,485
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
$45,550
Kept after tax
$38,779
Worth in national money
$37,485
State rank
30
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Florida pays fence erectors around $45,550 at the midpoint, 30 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Florida, this sits in the middle: 356 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 $45,550, tax leaves $38,779 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $37,485 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $45,750, since top earners drag the number up.
- For fence erectors the Florida median is $45,550, ranking 30 of 45 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Fence erectors ranks 356 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, $38,779 remains from the Florida median of $45,550 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $37,485 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $45,750 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Fence Erectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,840 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,550 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,000 |
| This salary | $45,550 |
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 | $38,779 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,779 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,421 |
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 | $45,550 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,928 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $45,550 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $31,840 and the ninetieth is $63,000 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $38,779, from $45,550, 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 356 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $37,485, the adjusted value of that $45,550 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 356 of 493 locally.
- The Florida median of $45,550 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $31,840 to $63,000. 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 $38,779 from $45,550. 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 356 of 493 locally.
- This $37,485 adjusted figure, worked from $45,550, 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 356 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 356 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $31,840 at the bottom tenth to $63,000 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 $37,485 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $38,779 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 45 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 ($31,840 to $63,000) 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 $37,485 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 $38,779 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.