File Clerks in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$35,726
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$6,024
14.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,534
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
$41,750
Kept after tax
$35,726
Worth in national money
$34,534
State rank
28
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Florida pays file clerks around $41,750 at the midpoint, 28 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 493 occupations Florida publishes, file clerks lands at 381. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $41,750 the take-home is $35,726; in national-average money that behaves like $34,534. The average comes to $42,800, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For file clerks the Florida median is $41,750, ranking 28 of 49 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.
- Within Florida, this work ranks 381 of 493 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Take-home for file clerks in Florida, on $41,750, is $35,726; deflated by the state's price level, $34,534. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $42,800 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: File Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $31,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $41,750 |
| Top tenth earn over | $56,550 |
| This salary | $41,750 |
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 | $35,726 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $35,726 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,231 |
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 | $41,750 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,698 |
| 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 file clerks in Florida earn under $41,750 and half over. The published range runs $31,010 at the tenth percentile to $56,550 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $35,726, from $41,750, 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 381 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $34,534, the adjusted value of that $41,750 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 381 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for file clerks in Florida, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $31,010 to $56,550; 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.
- Take-home for Florida is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $35,726 from $41,750. 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 381 of 493 locally.
- This $34,534 adjusted figure, worked from $41,750, 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 381 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 381 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $31,010 at the tenth percentile, $56,550 at the ninetieth.
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 $34,534 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $35,726 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 49 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 ($31,010 to $56,550) 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 $34,534 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 $35,726 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.