Parking Attendants in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$26,004
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$3,646
12.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$25,136
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
$29,650
Kept after tax
$26,004
Worth in national money
$25,136
State rank
46
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Florida pays parking attendants a middle wage of $29,650, 46 of 51 states and about 15.65% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Florida this is lower-paid work. Of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, parking attendants ranks 489. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $29,650 the take-home is $26,004; in national-average money that behaves like $25,136. The average comes to $31,890, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Florida's $29,650 median for parking attendants places it 46 of 51 states, about 15.65% 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.
- Against every occupation Florida reports, parking attendants ranks 489 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.
- Take-home for parking attendants in Florida, on $29,650, is $26,004; deflated by the state's price level, $25,136. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $31,890 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Parking Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $27,040 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $29,650 |
| Top tenth earn over | $39,860 |
| This salary | $29,650 |
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 | $26,004 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $26,004 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,624 |
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 | $29,650 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,944 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $29,650 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $27,040 and the ninetieth is $39,860 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $26,004, from $29,650, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 489 of 493 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $25,136, the adjusted value of that $29,650 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 489 of 493 in the state.
- The Florida median of $29,650 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $27,040 to $39,860. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Florida is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $26,004 from $29,650. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 489 of 493 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $25,136 — the adjusted value of that $29,650 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 489 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 $31,890, 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 — $27,040 at the tenth percentile, $39,860 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $25,136 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $26,004 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.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $31,890. 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 ($27,040 to $39,860) 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 $25,136 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 $26,004 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.