Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$66,805
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$15,605
18.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$64,576
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
$82,410
Kept after tax
$66,805
Worth in national money
$64,576
State rank
16
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Florida is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $82,410, which ranks 16 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 2.69% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Florida. It ranks 98 out of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $82,410 the take-home is $66,805; in national-average money that behaves like $64,576. The average comes to $83,110, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Florida ranks 16 of 51 states publishing a median for nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary, at $82,410 — about 2.69% 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.
- Within Florida, nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary ranks 98 of 493 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Take-home for nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary in Florida, on $82,410, is $66,805; deflated by the state's price level, $64,576. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $83,110 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,830 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $82,410 |
| Top tenth earn over | $109,910 |
| This salary | $82,410 |
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 | $66,805 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $66,805 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,171 |
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 | $82,410 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,762 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $82,410 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $56,830 and the ninetieth is $109,910 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $66,805 take-home in Florida comes from $82,410. 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 98 of 493.
- Two cautions on $64,576, the adjusted value of that $82,410 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 98 of 493 locally.
- The Florida median of $82,410 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $56,830 to $109,910. 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 $66,805, from $82,410, 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 98 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 16 of 51 for it.
- This $64,576 adjusted figure, worked from $82,410, 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 98 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 98 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $56,830 at the tenth percentile, $109,910 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 $64,576 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $66,805 survives, because Florida levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($56,830 to $109,910) 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 $64,576 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 $66,805 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.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.