Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$30,423
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$4,727
13.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$29,408
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
$35,150
Kept after tax
$30,423
Worth in national money
$29,408
State rank
22
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Florida pays this job around $35,150 at the midpoint, 22 of 46 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 493 occupations Florida publishes, this job lands at 456. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $35,150, tax leaves $30,423 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $29,408 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $40,080, since top earners drag the number up.
- For personal care and service workers, all other the Florida median is $35,150, ranking 22 of 46 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.
- Within Florida, this work ranks 456 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.
- After tax, $30,423 remains from the Florida median of $35,150 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $29,408 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $40,080 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $27,480 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $35,150 |
| Top tenth earn over | $56,190 |
| This salary | $35,150 |
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 | $30,423 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $30,423 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,900 |
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 | $35,150 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,297 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $35,150 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $27,480 and the ninetieth is $56,190 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $30,423, from $35,150, 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 456 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $29,408, the adjusted value of that $35,150 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 456 of 493 locally.
- The Florida median of $35,150 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $27,480 to $56,190. 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 $30,423 from $35,150. 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 456 of 493 locally.
- This $29,408 adjusted figure, worked from $35,150, 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 456 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 456 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 $40,080, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $27,480 at the bottom tenth to $56,190 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $29,408 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $30,423 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. 46 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 $40,080. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($27,480) and the ninetieth ($56,190) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $29,408 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 $30,423 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.