Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,863
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$9,237
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,233
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
$58,100
Kept after tax
$48,863
Worth in national money
$47,233
State rank
36
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Florida. The middle earner gets $58,100. That is 36 of 50 states, and about 7.31% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Florida, this sits in the middle: 229 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 $58,100 the take-home is $48,863; in national-average money that behaves like $47,233. The average comes to $59,970, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For kindergarten teachers, except special education, Florida sits in the lower band at $58,100, ranking 36 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 7.31%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Kindergarten teachers, except special education ranks 229 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 kindergarten teachers, except special education in Florida, on $58,100, is $48,863; deflated by the state's price level, $47,233. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $59,970 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,100 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,460 |
| This salary | $58,100 |
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 | $48,863 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,863 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,051 |
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 | $58,100 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,690 |
| 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 $58,100. The published range is $49,960 up to $77,460, 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 $48,863, worked from $58,100. 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 229 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $47,233, the adjusted value of that $58,100 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 229 of 493 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for kindergarten teachers, except special education in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $49,960 to $77,460. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Florida take-home of $48,863, on $58,100 for work ranking 229 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 229 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $47,233 — the adjusted value of that $58,100 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 229 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $59,970, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $49,960 at the tenth percentile, $77,460 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Florida costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $47,233 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $48,863 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.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $59,970. 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 ($49,960 to $77,460) 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 $47,233 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 $48,863 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.