Pharmacists in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$104,201
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$31,769
23.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$100,724
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
$135,970
Kept after tax
$104,201
Worth in national money
$100,724
State rank
43
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for pharmacists is on the low side in Florida. The middle earner gets $135,970. That is 43 of 51 states, and about 3.51% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Florida. It ranks 13 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 $135,970 the take-home is $104,201; in national-average money that behaves like $100,724. The average lands at $130,190, below the middle of the range.
- For pharmacists, Florida sits in the lower band at $135,970, ranking 43 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 3.51%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Florida, pharmacists ranks 13 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 pharmacists in Florida, on $135,970, is $104,201; deflated by the state's price level, $100,724. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $130,190 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Pharmacists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $135,970 |
| Top tenth earn over | $166,310 |
| This salary | $135,970 |
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 | $104,201 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $104,201 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,506 |
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 | $135,970 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$9,250 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $135,970 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $56,000 and the ninetieth is $166,310 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Florida's $104,201, worked from $135,970. 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 13 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $100,724, the adjusted value of that $135,970 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 13 of 493 in the state.
- The Florida median of $135,970 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $56,000 to $166,310. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Florida take-home of $104,201, on $135,970 for work ranking 13 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 13 of 493 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $100,724 — the adjusted value of that $135,970 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 13 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 $130,190, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $56,000 and the top tenth $166,310 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $100,724 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $104,201 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $130,190. 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 ($56,000) and the ninetieth ($166,310) 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 $100,724 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 $104,201 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.