Human Resources Specialists in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$55,540
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$10,870
16.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,687
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
$66,410
Kept after tax
$55,540
Worth in national money
$53,687
State rank
41
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Florida is among the lower-paying states for human resources specialists. The middle earner takes $66,410, ranking 41 of 51 states — about 12.55% below the national middle. Costs here are often lower too, which the figures further down account for.
- Against other work in Florida, this sits in the middle: 152 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $66,410 the take-home is $55,540; in national-average money that behaves like $53,687. The average comes to $74,610, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Florida ranks 41 of 51 for human resources specialists, with a median of $66,410 — about 12.55% below the national figure. A nominal shortfall is not by itself a real one: lower-paying states frequently carry lower tax and lower price levels, and the adjusted figures below are where that is settled rather than assumed.
- Human resources specialists ranks 152 of 493 occupations in Florida by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Take-home for human resources specialists in Florida, on $66,410, is $55,540; deflated by the state's price level, $53,687. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $74,610 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Human Resources Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,920 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $66,410 |
| Top tenth earn over | $115,920 |
| This salary | $66,410 |
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 | $55,540 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $55,540 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,468 |
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 | $66,410 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,194 |
| 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 $66,410. The published range is $44,920 up to $115,920, 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 $55,540, worked from $66,410. 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 152 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $53,687, the adjusted value of that $66,410 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 152 of 493 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for human resources specialists in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $44,920 to $115,920. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Florida take-home of $55,540, on $66,410 for work ranking 152 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 152 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $53,687 — the adjusted value of that $66,410 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 152 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 $74,610 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $44,920, the highest tenth $115,920, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $53,687 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $55,540 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?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $74,610. 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 ($44,920) and the ninetieth ($115,920) 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 $53,687 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 $55,540 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.