Floral Designers in Georgia
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$29,486
after federal, FICA and Georgia tax
Tax takes
$5,954
16.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$30,493
Georgia costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Georgia — 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
$35,440
Kept after tax
$29,486
Worth in national money
$30,493
State rank
33
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Georgia is 33 of 51 states for floral designers, with a middle wage of $35,440. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against 492 occupations Georgia publishes, floral designers lands at 442. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Here is where Georgia does better than its wage suggests. From a median of $35,440 you keep $29,486, and because things cost less here than the national average, that behaves like $30,493 would elsewhere. The average is higher, $37,110, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Georgia ranks 33 of 51 for floral designers at $35,440. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Within Georgia, this work ranks 442 of 492 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.
- After federal, FICA and Georgia income tax, retained pay for floral designers on $35,440 is $29,486. Deflating by the state's price level — below the national average — gives $30,493 in national-average terms. ⚠️ That figure is purchasing power, not a wage, and nobody is paid it; it is what the take-home buys. The mean of $37,110 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Floral Designers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $26,720 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $35,440 |
| Top tenth earn over | $54,640 |
| This salary | $35,440 |
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 Georgia | $29,486 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $30,656 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,054 |
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 | $33,984 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,275 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 97 |
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 floral designers in Georgia earn under $35,440 and half over. The published range runs $26,720 at the tenth percentile to $54,640 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Georgia's $29,486, worked from $35,440. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 442 of 492.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $30,493 uses one figure for the whole of Georgia. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 492 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 442.
- Figures are distribution medians for floral designers in Georgia, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $26,720 to $54,640; 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.
- The Georgia take-home of $29,486, on $35,440 for work ranking 442 of 492 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 442 of 492 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $30,493, worked from $35,440, 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 Georgia address, on work sitting at 442 of 492 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 $37,110 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $26,720, the highest tenth $54,640, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
Further than the number implies. Georgia is cheaper than the national average, so this take-home behaves like $30,493 in national terms.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Georgia's own levy, $29,486 remains.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 Georgia is $37,110. 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 ($26,720) and the ninetieth ($54,640) 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.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Georgia's regional price parity is at or below the national average, so nominal wages understate purchasing power. Take-home deflated by the state price level is $30,493 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $29,486 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Georgia income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
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.