Hazardous Materials Removal Workers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,208
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$6,142
14.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,000
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
$42,350
Kept after tax
$36,208
Worth in national money
$35,000
State rank
47
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Florida. The middle earner gets $42,350. That is 47 of 51 states, and about 14.36% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Florida publishes, this job lands at 377. 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 $42,350 the take-home is $36,208; in national-average money that behaves like $35,000. The average comes to $45,130, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For hazardous materials removal workers, Florida sits in the lower band at $42,350, ranking 47 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 14.36%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Florida, this work ranks 377 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 hazardous materials removal workers in Florida, on $42,350, is $36,208; deflated by the state's price level, $35,000. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $45,130 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Hazardous Materials Removal Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $34,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,350 |
| Top tenth earn over | $59,290 |
| This salary | $42,350 |
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 | $36,208 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,208 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,261 |
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 | $42,350 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,734 |
| 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 $42,350. The published range is $34,960 up to $59,290, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Florida's $36,208, worked from $42,350. 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 377 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $35,000 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 377.
- Reported values are medians; for hazardous materials removal workers in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $34,960 to $59,290. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Florida take-home of $36,208, on $42,350 for work ranking 377 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 377 of 493 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $35,000, worked from $42,350, 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 377 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $45,130, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $34,960 at the tenth percentile, $59,290 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 $35,000 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $36,208 of this wage reaches your account, because Florida takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $45,130. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($34,960 to $59,290) 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 $35,000 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 $36,208 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.