Maintenance Workers, Machinery in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,882
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$8,018
15.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,417
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
$51,900
Kept after tax
$43,882
Worth in national money
$42,417
State rank
43
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for maintenance workers, machinery is on the low side in Florida. The middle earner gets $51,900. That is 43 of 46 states, and about 14.71% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Maintenance workers, machinery ranks 261 among 493 occupations Florida publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $51,900, tax leaves $43,882 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $42,417 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $57,270, since top earners drag the number up.
- For maintenance workers, machinery, Florida sits in the lower band at $51,900, ranking 43 of 46 and trailing the national median by about 14.71%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Position 261 of 493 in Florida places maintenance workers, machinery 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.
- After tax, $43,882 remains from the Florida median of $51,900 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $42,417 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $57,270 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Maintenance Workers, Machinery
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,370 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,900 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,670 |
| This salary | $51,900 |
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 | $43,882 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,882 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,740 |
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 | $51,900 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,314 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $51,900 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $40,370 and the ninetieth is $83,670 — 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 $43,882, worked from $51,900. 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 261 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $42,417, the adjusted value of that $51,900 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 261 of 493 in the state.
- The Florida median of $51,900 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $40,370 to $83,670. 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 $43,882, on $51,900 for work ranking 261 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 261 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $42,417 — the adjusted value of that $51,900 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 261 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $57,270 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $40,370 and the top tenth $83,670 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $42,417 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $43,882 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. 46 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 $57,270. 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 ($40,370) and the ninetieth ($83,670) 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 $42,417 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 $43,882 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.