Special Education Teachers, Preschool in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,976
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$9,264
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,342
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
$58,240
Kept after tax
$48,976
Worth in national money
$47,342
State rank
36
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Florida pays this job a middle wage of $58,240, 36 of 45 states and about 10.17% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 227 among 493 occupations Florida publishes pay for.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $58,240 the take-home is $48,976; in national-average money that behaves like $47,342. The average comes to $61,580, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Florida's $58,240 median for special education teachers, preschool places it 36 of 45 states, about 10.17% 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.
- Position 227 of 493 in Florida places special education teachers, preschool in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Take-home for special education teachers, preschool in Florida, on $58,240, is $48,976; deflated by the state's price level, $47,342. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $61,580 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Special Education Teachers, Preschool
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,100 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $58,240 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,340 |
| This salary | $58,240 |
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 | $48,976 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,976 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,058 |
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 | $58,240 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,698 |
| 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 special education teachers, preschool in Florida earn under $58,240 and half over. The published range runs $50,100 at the tenth percentile to $78,340 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Florida's $48,976, worked from $58,240. 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 227 of 493.
- Two cautions on $47,342, the adjusted value of that $58,240 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 227 of 493 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for special education teachers, preschool in Florida, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $50,100 to $78,340; 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.
- The Florida take-home of $48,976, on $58,240 for work ranking 227 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 227 of 493 in the state.
- This $47,342 adjusted figure, worked from $58,240, 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 227 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 227 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 $61,580 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $50,100 at the tenth percentile, $78,340 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 $47,342 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $48,976 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.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 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 $61,580. 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 ($50,100 to $78,340) 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 $47,342 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 $48,976 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.