Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$68,156
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$16,174
19.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$65,882
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
$84,330
Kept after tax
$68,156
Worth in national money
$65,882
State rank
37
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 $84,330, 37 of 51 states and about 11.68% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Florida reports, this job comes in at 87 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $84,330 the take-home is $68,156; in national-average money that behaves like $65,882. The average comes to $86,110, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Florida's $84,330 median for magnetic resonance imaging technologists places it 37 of 51 states, about 11.68% 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.
- Magnetic resonance imaging technologists ranks 87 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 magnetic resonance imaging technologists in Florida, on $84,330, is $68,156; deflated by the state's price level, $65,882. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $86,110 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $65,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $84,330 |
| Top tenth earn over | $102,610 |
| This salary | $84,330 |
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 | $68,156 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $68,156 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,256 |
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 | $84,330 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,878 |
| 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 magnetic resonance imaging technologists in Florida earn under $84,330 and half over. The published range runs $65,000 at the tenth percentile to $102,610 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 $68,156, worked from $84,330. 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 87 of 493.
- Two cautions on $65,882, the adjusted value of that $84,330 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 87 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for magnetic resonance imaging technologists in Florida, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $65,000 to $102,610; 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 $68,156, on $84,330 for work ranking 87 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 87 of 493 in the state.
- This $65,882 adjusted figure, worked from $84,330, 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 87 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 87 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $65,000 at the tenth percentile, $102,610 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 $65,882 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $68,156 survives, because Florida levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($65,000 to $102,610) 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 $65,882 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 $68,156 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.