Floral Designers in Texas
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,367
after federal, FICA and Texas tax
Tax takes
$4,713
13.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,250
Texas costs less than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Texas — 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
$35,080
Kept after tax
$30,367
Worth in national money
$31,250
State rank
36
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for floral designers is on the low side in Texas. The middle earner gets $35,080. That is 36 of 51 states, and about 6.1% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Texas publishes, floral designers lands at 443. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $35,080, tax leaves $30,367, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $31,250 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $34,990.
- For floral designers, Texas sits in the lower band at $35,080, ranking 36 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 6.1%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Texas, this work ranks 443 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.
- Because Texas sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for floral designers — median $35,080 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $30,367 retained, $31,250 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $34,990 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Floral Designers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $26,900 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $35,080 |
| Top tenth earn over | $45,240 |
| This salary | $35,080 |
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 Texas | $30,367 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Florida | $30,367 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | −$1,896 |
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 | $35,080 |
|---|---|
| Raise you would need | +$2,441 |
| Prices in Florida | 103 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 Texas earn under $35,080 and half over. The published range runs $26,900 at the tenth percentile to $45,240 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 Texas's $30,367, worked from $35,080. 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 443 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $31,250 uses one figure for the whole of Texas. 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 443.
- Figures are distribution medians for floral designers in Texas, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $26,900 to $45,240; 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 Texas take-home of $30,367, on $35,080 for work ranking 443 of 493 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 443 of 493 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $31,250, worked from $35,080, 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 Texas address, on work sitting at 443 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $26,900 and the top tenth $45,240, so most people doing this work in Texas sit within a fairly tight band.
What does this pay actually buy where I live?
A smaller wage in a cheaper place is not automatically less. Adjusted for local prices, this is worth $31,250.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $30,367 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($26,900 to $45,240) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Texas rather than a national figure.
What is this occupation's price-adjusted compensation in this state?
Texas'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 $31,250 in national-average terms. The adjustment uses an all-items index and does not isolate housing.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Texas levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $30,367 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.