Psychiatric Technicians in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$37,188
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$6,382
14.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$35,948
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
$43,570
Kept after tax
$37,188
Worth in national money
$35,948
State rank
26
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Florida pays psychiatric technicians around $43,570 at the midpoint, 26 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against 493 occupations Florida publishes, psychiatric technicians lands at 373. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $43,570 the take-home is $37,188. But Florida costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $35,948 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $44,900, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For psychiatric technicians the Florida median is $43,570, ranking 26 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.
- Within Florida, this work ranks 373 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.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and Florida income tax is $37,188 for psychiatric technicians, from $43,570. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $35,948. ⚠️ This is purchasing power and not a wage; cross-state offer comparisons that stop at the nominal figure systematically overvalue high-cost states. The mean of $44,900 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Psychiatric Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,280 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $43,570 |
| Top tenth earn over | $57,290 |
| This salary | $43,570 |
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 | $37,188 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $37,188 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,322 |
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 | $43,570 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,808 |
| 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 $43,570. The published range is $35,280 up to $57,290, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $37,188 take-home in Florida comes from $43,570. 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 373 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $35,948 uses one figure for the whole of Florida. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 493 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 373.
- Reported values are medians; for psychiatric technicians in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $35,280 to $57,290. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $37,188, from $43,570, 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 373 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 26 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $35,948, worked from $43,570, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Florida address, on work sitting at 373 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 $44,900, 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?
The range here is narrow. From $35,280 at the bottom tenth to $57,290 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 $35,948 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $37,188 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.
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 $44,900. 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 ($35,280 to $57,290) 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 $35,948 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 $37,188 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.