Printing Press Operators in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$35,268
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$5,912
14.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$34,091
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
$41,180
Kept after tax
$35,268
Worth in national money
$34,091
State rank
40
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for printing press operators is on the low side in Florida. The middle earner gets $41,180. That is 40 of 51 states, and about 10.05% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against 493 occupations Florida publishes, printing press operators lands at 386. 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 $41,180 the take-home is $35,268; in national-average money that behaves like $34,091. The average comes to $42,840, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For printing press operators, Florida sits in the lower band at $41,180, ranking 40 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 10.05%. 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 386 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 printing press operators in Florida, on $41,180, is $35,268; deflated by the state's price level, $34,091. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $42,840 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Printing Press Operators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,490 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $41,180 |
| Top tenth earn over | $60,130 |
| This salary | $41,180 |
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 | $35,268 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $35,268 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,202 |
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 | $41,180 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,663 |
| 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 $41,180. The published range is $30,490 up to $60,130, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $35,268 take-home in Florida comes from $41,180. 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 386 of 493.
- Two cautions on $34,091, the adjusted value of that $41,180 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 386 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for printing press operators in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $30,490 to $60,130. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $35,268, from $41,180, 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 386 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 40 of 51 for it.
- This $34,091 adjusted figure, worked from $41,180, 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 386 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 386 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 $42,840, 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 — $30,490 at the tenth percentile, $60,130 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Florida run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $34,091 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $35,268 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?
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 $42,840. 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 ($30,490 to $60,130) 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 $34,091 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 $35,268 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.