Lawyers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$102,295
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$30,885
23.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$98,881
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
$133,180
Kept after tax
$102,295
Worth in national money
$98,881
State rank
24
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Florida pays lawyers around $133,180 at the midpoint, 24 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Florida reports, lawyers comes in at 15 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $133,180 the take-home is $102,295; in national-average money that behaves like $98,881. The average comes to $162,060, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For lawyers the Florida median is $133,180, ranking 24 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Lawyers ranks 15 of 493 occupations by median in Florida, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Take-home for lawyers in Florida, on $133,180, is $102,295; deflated by the state's price level, $98,881. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $162,060 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Lawyers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $75,530 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $133,180 |
| Top tenth earn over | $301,050 |
| This salary | $133,180 |
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 | $102,295 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $102,295 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,387 |
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 | $133,180 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,081 |
| 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 lawyers in Florida earn under $133,180 and half over. The published range runs $75,530 at the tenth percentile to $301,050 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Florida's $102,295, worked from $133,180. 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 15 of 493.
- Two cautions on $98,881, the adjusted value of that $133,180 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 15 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for lawyers in Florida, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $75,530 to $301,050; 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.
- The Florida take-home of $102,295, on $133,180 for work ranking 15 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 15 of 493 in the state.
- This $98,881 adjusted figure, worked from $133,180, 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 15 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 15 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 $162,060, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $75,530, the highest tenth $301,050, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $98,881 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $102,295 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 $162,060. 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 ($75,530) and the ninetieth ($301,050) 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 $98,881 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 $102,295 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.