Medical Transcriptionists in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$35,967
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$6,083
14.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,767
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
$42,050
Kept after tax
$35,967
Worth in national money
$34,767
State rank
20
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Florida is 20 of 50 states for medical transcriptionists, with a middle wage of $42,050. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Within Florida this is lower-paid work. Of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, medical transcriptionists ranks 379. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $42,050, tax leaves $35,967 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $34,767 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $42,750, since top earners drag the number up.
- Florida ranks 20 of 50 for medical transcriptionists at $42,050. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Against every occupation Florida reports, medical transcriptionists ranks 379 of 493, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- After tax, $35,967 remains from the Florida median of $42,050 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $34,767 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $42,750 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Medical Transcriptionists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,720 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $42,050 |
| Top tenth earn over | $59,240 |
| This salary | $42,050 |
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 | $35,967 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $35,967 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,246 |
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 | $42,050 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,716 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $42,050 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $28,720 and the ninetieth is $59,240 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $35,967 take-home in Florida comes from $42,050. 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 379 of 493.
- Two cautions on $34,767, the adjusted value of that $42,050 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 379 of 493 locally.
- The Florida median of $42,050 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $28,720 to $59,240. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $35,967, from $42,050, 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 379 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 20 of 50 for it.
- This $34,767 adjusted figure, worked from $42,050, 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 379 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 379 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $28,720 and the top tenth $59,240 — 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 $34,767 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $35,967 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($28,720) and the ninetieth ($59,240) 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 $34,767 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 $35,967 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.