Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,938
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$5,342
14.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,839
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
$38,280
Kept after tax
$32,938
Worth in national money
$31,839
State rank
33
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Florida pays this job a middle wage of $38,280, 33 of 46 states and about 10.5% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Florida this is lower-paid work. Of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, this job ranks 414. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- The wage here flatters the reality. From $38,280 the take-home is $32,938. But Florida costs more than the national average, so that money behaves more like $31,839 would elsewhere. Worth knowing before comparing offers across states. The average is higher, $40,740, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Florida's $38,280 median for sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood places it 33 of 46 states, about 10.5% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation Florida reports, sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood ranks 414 of 493, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Retained pay after federal, FICA and Florida income tax is $32,938 for sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood, from $38,280. The state's price level exceeds the national average, so the price-adjusted equivalent is $31,839. ⚠️ 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 $40,740 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,330 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $38,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $48,710 |
| This salary | $38,280 |
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 | $32,938 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,938 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,057 |
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 | $38,280 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,487 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $38,280 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $33,330 and the ninetieth is $48,710 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $32,938, from $38,280, 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 414 of 493 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $31,839 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 414.
- The Florida median of $38,280 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $33,330 to $48,710. 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 $32,938 from $38,280. 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 414 of 493 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $31,839, worked from $38,280, 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 414 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 $40,740, 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?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $33,330 and the top tenth $48,710, so most people doing this work in Florida sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $31,839 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $32,938 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 46 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 $40,740. 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 ($33,330 to $48,710) 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 $31,839 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 $32,938 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.