Machinists in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,092
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$9,048
15.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,487
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
$57,140
Kept after tax
$48,092
Worth in national money
$46,487
State rank
38
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for machinists is on the low side in Florida. The middle earner gets $57,140. That is 38 of 51 states, and about 2.74% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Machinists ranks 236 among 493 occupations Florida publishes pay for.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $57,140 the take-home is $48,092; in national-average money that behaves like $46,487. The average comes to $57,590, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For machinists, Florida sits in the lower band at $57,140, ranking 38 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 2.74%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 236 of 493 in Florida places machinists 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.
- Take-home for machinists in Florida, on $57,140, is $48,092; deflated by the state's price level, $46,487. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $57,590 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Machinists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,140 |
| Top tenth earn over | $76,220 |
| This salary | $57,140 |
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 | $48,092 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,092 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,003 |
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 | $57,140 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,632 |
| 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 $57,140. The published range is $39,870 up to $76,220, 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 $48,092, worked from $57,140. 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 236 of 493.
- Two cautions on $46,487, the adjusted value of that $57,140 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 236 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for machinists in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $39,870 to $76,220. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Florida take-home of $48,092, on $57,140 for work ranking 236 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 236 of 493 in the state.
- This $46,487 adjusted figure, worked from $57,140, 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 236 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 236 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $39,870 at the tenth percentile, $76,220 at the ninetieth.
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 $46,487 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $48,092 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?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($39,870 to $76,220) 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 $46,487 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 $48,092 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.