Roofers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$40,419
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$7,171
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$39,070
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
$47,590
Kept after tax
$40,419
Worth in national money
$39,070
State rank
37
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for roofers is on the low side in Florida. The middle earner gets $47,590. That is 37 of 51 states, and about 14.16% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 493 occupations Florida reports figures for, this is number 315.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $47,590 the take-home is $40,419; in national-average money that behaves like $39,070. The average comes to $48,870, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For roofers, Florida sits in the lower band at $47,590, ranking 37 of 51 and trailing the national median by about 14.16%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- In Florida's occupational distribution, roofers sits at 315 of 493 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Take-home for roofers in Florida, on $47,590, is $40,419; deflated by the state's price level, $39,070. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $48,870 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Roofers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,240 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $47,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $63,810 |
| This salary | $47,590 |
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 | $40,419 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $40,419 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,524 |
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 | $47,590 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,052 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $47,590 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,240 and the ninetieth is $63,810 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $40,419 take-home in Florida comes from $47,590. 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 315 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $39,070, the adjusted value of that $47,590 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 315 of 493 in the state.
- The Florida median of $47,590 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,240 to $63,810. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $40,419, from $47,590, 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 315 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 37 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $39,070 — the adjusted value of that $47,590 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 315 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $33,240 at the tenth percentile, $63,810 at the ninetieth.
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 $39,070 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $40,419 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.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($33,240 to $63,810) 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 $39,070 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 $40,419 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.