Speech-Language Pathologists in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$79,173
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$20,817
20.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$76,531
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
$99,990
Kept after tax
$79,173
Worth in national money
$76,531
State rank
14
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Florida is one of the better-paying states for speech-language pathologists. The middle earner takes $99,990, which ranks 14 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 2.17% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Florida reports, speech-language pathologists comes in at 56 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $99,990, tax leaves $79,173 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $76,531 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $96,710.
- Florida ranks 14 of 51 states publishing a median for speech-language pathologists, at $99,990 — about 2.17% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Speech-language pathologists ranks 56 of 493 occupations by median in Florida, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- After tax, $79,173 remains from the Florida median of $99,990 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $76,531 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $96,710 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Speech-Language Pathologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $69,970 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $99,990 |
| Top tenth earn over | $122,050 |
| This salary | $99,990 |
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 | $79,173 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $79,173 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,944 |
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 | $99,990 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,829 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $99,990 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $69,970 and the ninetieth is $122,050 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Florida's $79,173, worked from $99,990. 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 56 of 493.
- Two cautions on $76,531, the adjusted value of that $99,990 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 56 of 493 locally.
- The Florida median of $99,990 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $69,970 to $122,050. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Florida take-home of $79,173, on $99,990 for work ranking 56 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 56 of 493 in the state.
- This $76,531 adjusted figure, worked from $99,990, 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 56 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 56 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $96,710, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $69,970 at the bottom tenth to $122,050 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $76,531 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $79,173 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?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $96,710. 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 ($69,970 to $122,050) 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 $76,531 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 $79,173 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.