Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,619
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$7,221
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,264
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
$47,840
Kept after tax
$40,619
Worth in national money
$39,264
State rank
25
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Florida pays this job around $47,840 at the midpoint, 25 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Florida, this sits in the middle: 312 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $47,840, tax leaves $40,619 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $39,264 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $49,890, since top earners drag the number up.
- For outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics the Florida median is $47,840, ranking 25 of 49 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics ranks 312 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.
- After tax, $40,619 remains from the Florida median of $47,840 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $39,264 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $49,890 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,640 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,840 |
| Top tenth earn over | $65,220 |
| This salary | $47,840 |
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 | $40,619 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,619 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,536 |
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 | $47,840 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,067 |
| 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 $47,840. The published range is $35,640 up to $65,220, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $40,619 take-home in Florida comes from $47,840. 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 312 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $39,264, the adjusted value of that $47,840 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 312 of 493 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $35,640 to $65,220. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $40,619, from $47,840, 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 312 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 25 of 49 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $39,264 — the adjusted value of that $47,840 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 312 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $49,890, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $35,640 at the bottom tenth to $65,220 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $39,264 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $40,619 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $49,890. 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 ($35,640 to $65,220) 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 $39,264 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 $40,619 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.