Materials Engineers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$92,392
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$26,388
22.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$89,309
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
$118,780
Kept after tax
$92,392
Worth in national money
$89,309
State rank
14
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Florida is one of the better-paying states for materials engineers. The middle earner takes $118,780, which ranks 14 of 45 states with published figures. That is about 5.25% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Florida reports, materials engineers comes in at 28 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $118,780 the take-home is $92,392; in national-average money that behaves like $89,309. The average lands at $118,040, below the middle of the range.
- Florida ranks 14 of 45 states publishing a median for materials engineers, at $118,780 — about 5.25% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Materials engineers ranks 28 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 materials engineers in Florida, on $118,780, is $92,392; deflated by the state's price level, $89,309. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $118,040 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Materials Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $73,370 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $118,780 |
| Top tenth earn over | $166,490 |
| This salary | $118,780 |
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 | $92,392 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $92,392 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,769 |
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 | $118,780 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,969 |
| 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 $118,780. The published range is $73,370 up to $166,490, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $92,392 take-home in Florida comes from $118,780. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 28 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $89,309 uses one figure for the whole of Florida. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 28.
- Reported values are medians; for materials engineers in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $73,370 to $166,490. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $92,392, from $118,780, assumes a single Florida filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 28 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 14 of 45 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $89,309, worked from $118,780, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Florida address, on work sitting at 28 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $73,370 at the bottom tenth to $166,490 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $89,309 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $92,392 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. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($73,370) and the ninetieth ($166,490) 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 $89,309 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 $92,392 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.