Financial Examiners in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,458
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$13,772
18.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$60,374
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
$76,230
Kept after tax
$62,458
Worth in national money
$60,374
State rank
41
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for financial examiners is on the low side in Florida. The middle earner gets $76,230. That is 41 of 49 states, and about 19.04% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Within Florida this is well-paid work. Of 493 occupations with published figures in the state, financial examiners ranks 122 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $76,230 the take-home is $62,458; in national-average money that behaves like $60,374. The average comes to $83,540, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For financial examiners, Florida sits in the lower band at $76,230, ranking 41 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 19.04%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Ranked against every occupation Florida publishes a median for, financial examiners sits 122 of 493 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Take-home for financial examiners in Florida, on $76,230, is $62,458; deflated by the state's price level, $60,374. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $83,540 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Financial Examiners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,190 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $76,230 |
| Top tenth earn over | $129,090 |
| This salary | $76,230 |
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 | $62,458 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $62,458 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,900 |
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 | $76,230 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,387 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Florida earn less than $76,230. The published range is $49,190 up to $129,090, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $62,458 take-home in Florida comes from $76,230. 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 122 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $60,374 uses one figure for the whole of Florida. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 122.
- Reported values are medians; for financial examiners in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $49,190 to $129,090. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $62,458, from $76,230, 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 122 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 41 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $60,374, worked from $76,230, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Florida address, on work sitting at 122 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 $83,540 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $49,190 and the top tenth $129,090 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $60,374 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $62,458 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. 49 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 $83,540. 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 ($49,190) and the ninetieth ($129,090) 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 $60,374 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 $62,458 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.