Public Relations Specialists in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,331
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$10,329
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,551
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
$63,660
Kept after tax
$53,331
Worth in national money
$51,551
State rank
37
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for public relations specialists is on the low side in Florida. The middle earner gets $63,660. That is 37 of 51 states, and about 14.84% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Florida, this sits in the middle: 166 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $63,660, tax leaves $53,331 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $51,551 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $71,950, since top earners drag the number up.
- For public relations specialists, Florida sits in the lower band at $63,660, ranking 37 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 14.84%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Public relations specialists ranks 166 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.
- After tax, $53,331 remains from the Florida median of $63,660 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $51,551 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $71,950 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Public Relations Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,660 |
| Top tenth earn over | $115,680 |
| This salary | $63,660 |
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 | $53,331 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,331 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,330 |
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 | $63,660 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,027 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $63,660 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $37,000 and the ninetieth is $115,680 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $53,331, from $63,660, 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 166 of 493 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $51,551, the adjusted value of that $63,660 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 166 of 493 in the state.
- The Florida median of $63,660 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $37,000 to $115,680. 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 $53,331 from $63,660. 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 166 of 493 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $51,551 — the adjusted value of that $63,660 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 166 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 $71,950, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $37,000, the highest tenth $115,680, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $51,551 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $53,331 survives, because Florida levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $71,950. 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 ($37,000) and the ninetieth ($115,680) 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 $51,551 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 $53,331 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.