Mechanical Door Repairers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,371
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$7,649
15.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,957
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
$50,020
Kept after tax
$42,371
Worth in national money
$40,957
State rank
33
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Florida pays mechanical door repairers a middle wage of $50,020, 33 of 45 states and about 10.23% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Florida reports figures for, this is number 277.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $50,020 the take-home is $42,371; in national-average money that behaves like $40,957. The average comes to $56,870, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Florida's $50,020 median for mechanical door repairers places it 33 of 45 states, about 10.23% 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.
- In Florida's occupational distribution, mechanical door repairers sits at 277 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Take-home for mechanical door repairers in Florida, on $50,020, is $42,371; deflated by the state's price level, $40,957. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $56,870 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Mechanical Door Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,470 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,020 |
| Top tenth earn over | $93,080 |
| This salary | $50,020 |
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 | $42,371 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,371 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,646 |
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 | $50,020 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,200 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $50,020 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,470 and the ninetieth is $93,080 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $42,371, from $50,020, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 277 of 493 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $40,957, the adjusted value of that $50,020 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 277 of 493 in the state.
- The Florida median of $50,020 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,470 to $93,080. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Florida is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $42,371 from $50,020. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 277 of 493 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $40,957 — the adjusted value of that $50,020 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 277 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 $56,870 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $37,470 at the bottom tenth to $93,080 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 $40,957 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $42,371 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.
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 $56,870. 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 ($37,470) and the ninetieth ($93,080) 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 $40,957 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 $42,371 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.