Home Health and Personal Care Aides in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$29,338
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$4,462
13.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$28,359
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
$33,800
Kept after tax
$29,338
Worth in national money
$28,359
State rank
33
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Florida is 33 of 51 states for home health and personal care aides, with a middle wage of $33,800. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Florida this is lower-paid work. Of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, home health and personal care aides ranks 474. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $33,800, tax leaves $29,338 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $28,359 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $34,590, since top earners drag the number up.
- Florida ranks 33 of 51 for home health and personal care aides at $33,800. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation Florida reports, home health and personal care aides ranks 474 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.
- After tax, $29,338 remains from the Florida median of $33,800 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $28,359 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $34,590 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Home Health and Personal Care Aides
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,660 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $33,800 |
| Top tenth earn over | $38,310 |
| This salary | $33,800 |
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 | $29,338 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $29,338 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,832 |
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 | $33,800 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,215 |
| 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 $33,800. The published range is $30,660 up to $38,310, 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 $29,338, worked from $33,800. 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 474 of 493.
- Two cautions on $28,359, the adjusted value of that $33,800 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Florida. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 474 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for home health and personal care aides in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $30,660 to $38,310. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Florida take-home of $29,338, on $33,800 for work ranking 474 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 474 of 493 in the state.
- This $28,359 adjusted figure, worked from $33,800, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 474 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 474 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $30,660 at the bottom tenth to $38,310 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $28,359 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $29,338 survives, because Florida levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 ($30,660 to $38,310) 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 $28,359 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 $29,338 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.