Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,407
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$11,643
16.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$55,491
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
$69,050
Kept after tax
$57,407
Worth in national money
$55,491
State rank
45
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is on the low side in Florida. The middle earner gets $69,050. That is 45 of 50 states, and about 14.05% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Florida, this sits in the middle: 148 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $69,050 the take-home is $57,407; in national-average money that behaves like $55,491. The average comes to $74,740, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For psychology teachers, postsecondary, Florida sits in the lower band at $69,050, ranking 45 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 14.05%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Psychology teachers, postsecondary ranks 148 of 493 occupations in Florida by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Take-home for psychology teachers, postsecondary in Florida, on $69,050, is $57,407; deflated by the state's price level, $55,491. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $74,740 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $58,230 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $69,050 |
| Top tenth earn over | $99,840 |
| This salary | $69,050 |
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 | $57,407 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $57,407 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,584 |
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 | $69,050 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,652 |
| 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 $69,050. The published range is $58,230 up to $99,840, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Florida's $57,407, worked from $69,050. 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 148 of 493.
- Two cautions on $55,491, the adjusted value of that $69,050 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 148 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for psychology teachers, postsecondary in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $58,230 to $99,840. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Florida take-home of $57,407, on $69,050 for work ranking 148 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 148 of 493 in the state.
- This $55,491 adjusted figure, worked from $69,050, 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 148 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 148 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 $74,740, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $58,230 at the tenth percentile, $99,840 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 $55,491 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $57,407 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $74,740. 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 ($58,230 to $99,840) 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 $55,491 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 $57,407 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.