Highway Maintenance Workers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$36,096
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$6,114
14.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,891
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
$42,210
Kept after tax
$36,096
Worth in national money
$34,891
State rank
43
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Florida pays highway maintenance workers a middle wage of $42,210, 43 of 49 states and about 16.02% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Florida this is lower-paid work. Of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, highway maintenance workers ranks 378. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $42,210 the take-home is $36,096; in national-average money that behaves like $34,891. The average comes to $43,130, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Florida's $42,210 median for highway maintenance workers places it 43 of 49 states, about 16.02% 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.
- Against every occupation Florida reports, highway maintenance workers ranks 378 of 493, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Take-home for highway maintenance workers in Florida, on $42,210, is $36,096; deflated by the state's price level, $34,891. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $43,130 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Highway Maintenance Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,610 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,210 |
| Top tenth earn over | $57,220 |
| This salary | $42,210 |
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 | $36,096 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $36,096 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,254 |
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 | $42,210 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,726 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
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 highway maintenance workers in Florida earn under $42,210 and half over. The published range runs $33,610 at the tenth percentile to $57,220 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $36,096, from $42,210, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 378 of 493 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $34,891, the adjusted value of that $42,210 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 378 of 493 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for highway maintenance workers in Florida, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,610 to $57,220; 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.
- Take-home for Florida is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $36,096 from $42,210. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 378 of 493 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $34,891 — the adjusted value of that $42,210 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 378 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $33,610 at the tenth percentile, $57,220 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Florida run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $34,891 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $36,096 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?
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($33,610 to $57,220) 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 $34,891 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 $36,096 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.