Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,842
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$5,318
13.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,746
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
$38,160
Kept after tax
$32,842
Worth in national money
$31,746
State rank
40
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Florida pays this job a middle wage of $38,160, 40 of 51 states and about 5.17% 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, this job ranks 415. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $38,160 the take-home is $32,842. But Florida costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $31,746 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $40,260, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Florida's $38,160 median for laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand places it 40 of 51 states, about 5.17% 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, laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand ranks 415 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and Florida income tax is $32,842 for laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand, from $38,160. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $31,746. ⚠️ 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 $40,260 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $29,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $38,160 |
| Top tenth earn over | $48,870 |
| This salary | $38,160 |
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 | $32,842 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,842 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,051 |
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 | $38,160 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,480 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $38,160 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $29,960 and the ninetieth is $48,870 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Florida's $32,842, worked from $38,160. 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 415 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $31,746, the adjusted value of that $38,160 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 415 of 493 in the state.
- The Florida median of $38,160 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $29,960 to $48,870. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Florida take-home of $32,842, on $38,160 for work ranking 415 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 415 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $31,746 — the adjusted value of that $38,160 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 415 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $40,260, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $29,960 and the top tenth $48,870, so most people doing this work in Florida sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $31,746 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $32,842 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 $40,260. 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 ($29,960 to $48,870) 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 $31,746 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 $32,842 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.