Fundraising Managers in Florida

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May 2025 wages · tax year 2026

You keep

$77,238

after federal, FICA and Florida tax

Tax takes

$20,002

20.6% of the whole

Worth, in national money

$74,661

Florida costs more than average

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

$97,240

Kept after tax

$77,238

Worth in national money

$74,661

State rank

39

of 48 states

What this pays, and what it is worth

  • The nominal figure here is modest. Florida pays fundraising managers a middle wage of $97,240, 39 of 48 states and about 22.5% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
  • Within Florida this is well-paid work. Of 493 occupations with published figures in the state, fundraising managers ranks 68 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
  • Costs eat into it here. Of $97,240, tax leaves $77,238 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $74,661 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $119,720, since top earners drag the number up.
  • Florida's $97,240 median for fundraising managers places it 39 of 48 states, about 22.5% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
  • Ranked against every occupation Florida publishes a median for, fundraising managers sits 68 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.
  • After tax, $77,238 remains from the Florida median of $97,240 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $74,661 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $119,720 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.

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Pay band: Fundraising Managers

The state median for this job

50thpercentile, roughly
Lowest tenth earn under$71,230
Half earn under$97,240
Top tenth earn over$206,360
This salary$97,240

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

Compare with
$0take-home per year in Texas
Take-home in Florida$77,238
Take-home in Texas$77,238
Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity+$4,823

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

Moving to
$0now · $97,240$90,578
$90,578in Texas, for the same life
To match take-home only$97,240
You could take a cut of−$6,662
Prices in Texas97 vs 103

State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.

Sources and assumptions
  • Treat $97,240 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $71,230 and the ninetieth is $206,360 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
  • That $77,238 take-home in Florida comes from $97,240. 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 68 of 493.
  • The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $74,661 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 68.
  • The Florida median of $97,240 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $71,230 to $206,360. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
  • Retained pay of $77,238, from $97,240, 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 68 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 39 of 48 for it.
  • Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $74,661, worked from $97,240, 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 68 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 $119,720 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 $71,230 and the top tenth $206,360 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.

Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?

The number and the value are different things. Florida costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $74,661 rather than its face figure.

Is most of this wage taxed away?

No. $77,238 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?

The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.

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 $119,720. 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 ($71,230) and the ninetieth ($206,360) 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 $74,661 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 $77,238 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.