Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,378
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$7,162
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,031
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
$47,540
Kept after tax
$40,378
Worth in national money
$39,031
State rank
36
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 $47,540. That is 36 of 51 states, and about 2.12% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 316 among 493 occupations Florida publishes pay for.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $47,540 the take-home is $40,378. But Florida costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $39,031 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $50,980, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers, Florida sits in the lower band at $47,540, ranking 36 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 2.12%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 316 of 493 in Florida places inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and Florida income tax is $40,378 for inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers, from $47,540. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $39,031. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $50,980 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,040 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,540 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,550 |
| This salary | $47,540 |
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 | $40,378 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,378 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,521 |
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 | $47,540 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,049 |
| 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 inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers in Florida earn under $47,540 and half over. The published range runs $33,040 at the tenth percentile to $75,550 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $40,378, from $47,540, 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 316 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $39,031, the adjusted value of that $47,540 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 316 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers in Florida, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,040 to $75,550; 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 $40,378 from $47,540. 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 316 of 493 locally.
- This $39,031 adjusted figure, worked from $47,540, 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 316 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 316 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 $50,980 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 $33,040 and the top tenth $75,550 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $39,031 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $40,378 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 $50,980. 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 ($33,040) and the ninetieth ($75,550) 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 $39,031 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 $40,378 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.