Orderlies in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,640
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$4,780
13.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$29,618
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
$35,420
Kept after tax
$30,640
Worth in national money
$29,618
State rank
39
of 47 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for orderlies is on the low side in Florida. The middle earner gets $35,420. That is 39 of 47 states, and about 7.5% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Florida publishes, orderlies lands at 452. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $35,420 the take-home is $30,640; in national-average money that behaves like $29,618. The average comes to $36,090, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For orderlies, Florida sits in the lower band at $35,420, ranking 39 of 47 and trailing the national median by about 7.5%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Florida, this work ranks 452 of 493 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Take-home for orderlies in Florida, on $35,420, is $30,640; deflated by the state's price level, $29,618. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $36,090 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Orderlies
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $32,610 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $35,420 |
| Top tenth earn over | $38,930 |
| This salary | $35,420 |
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 | $30,640 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $30,640 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,913 |
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 | $35,420 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,314 |
| 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 $35,420. The published range is $32,610 up to $38,930, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Florida's $30,640, worked from $35,420. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 452 of 493.
- Two cautions on $29,618, the adjusted value of that $35,420 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 452 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for orderlies in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $32,610 to $38,930. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Florida take-home of $30,640, on $35,420 for work ranking 452 of 493 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 452 of 493 in the state.
- This $29,618 adjusted figure, worked from $35,420, 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 452 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 452 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $32,610 at the tenth percentile, $38,930 at the ninetieth.
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 $29,618 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $30,640 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 47 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($32,610 to $38,930) 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 $29,618 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 $30,640 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.