School Psychologists in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$68,459
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$16,301
19.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$66,174
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
$84,760
Kept after tax
$68,459
Worth in national money
$66,174
State rank
22
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Florida sits in the middle of the pack for school psychologists. The median is $84,760, ranking 22 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Florida. It ranks 86 out of 493 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $84,760 the take-home is $68,459; in national-average money that behaves like $66,174. The average comes to $87,970, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Florida occupies the middle band for school psychologists: a median of $84,760, ranking 22 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Within Florida, school psychologists ranks 86 of 493 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Take-home for school psychologists in Florida, on $84,760, is $68,459; deflated by the state's price level, $66,174. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $87,970 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: School Psychologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $62,320 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $84,760 |
| Top tenth earn over | $107,540 |
| This salary | $84,760 |
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 | $68,459 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $68,459 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,275 |
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 | $84,760 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,904 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of school psychologists in Florida earn under $84,760 and half over. The published range runs $62,320 at the tenth percentile to $107,540 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $68,459, from $84,760, 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 86 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $66,174, the adjusted value of that $84,760 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 86 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for school psychologists in Florida, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $62,320 to $107,540; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Take-home for Florida is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $68,459 from $84,760. 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 86 of 493 locally.
- This $66,174 adjusted figure, worked from $84,760, 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 86 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 86 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $87,970 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $62,320 and the top tenth $107,540, so most people doing this work in Florida sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $66,174 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $68,459 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?
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 $87,970. 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 ($62,320 to $107,540) 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 $66,174 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 $68,459 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.