Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,434
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$6,686
14.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,151
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
$45,120
Kept after tax
$38,434
Worth in national money
$37,151
State rank
38
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Florida pays this job a middle wage of $45,120, 38 of 45 states and about 9.6% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Florida, this sits in the middle: 358 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $45,120 the take-home is $38,434; in national-average money that behaves like $37,151. The average comes to $47,350, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Florida's $45,120 median for miscellaneous construction and related workers places it 38 of 45 states, about 9.6% 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.
- Miscellaneous construction and related workers ranks 358 of 493 occupations in Florida by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Take-home for miscellaneous construction and related workers in Florida, on $45,120, is $38,434; deflated by the state's price level, $37,151. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $47,350 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Miscellaneous Construction and Related Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,320 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,120 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,780 |
| This salary | $45,120 |
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 | $38,434 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,434 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,400 |
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 | $45,120 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,902 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $45,120 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $35,320 and the ninetieth is $60,780 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $38,434 take-home in Florida comes from $45,120. 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 358 of 493.
- Two cautions on $37,151, the adjusted value of that $45,120 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 358 of 493 locally.
- The Florida median of $45,120 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $35,320 to $60,780. 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 $38,434, from $45,120, 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 358 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 38 of 45 for it.
- This $37,151 adjusted figure, worked from $45,120, 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 358 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 358 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $47,350, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $35,320 at the tenth percentile, $60,780 at the ninetieth.
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 $37,151 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $38,434 survives, because Florida levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 $47,350. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($35,320 to $60,780) 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 $37,151 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 $38,434 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.