Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,788
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$9,952
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,060
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
$61,740
Kept after tax
$51,788
Worth in national money
$50,060
State rank
32
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Florida pays this job around $61,740 at the midpoint, 32 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Florida, this sits in the middle: 183 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $61,740 the take-home is $51,788; in national-average money that behaves like $50,060. The average lands at $61,600, below the middle of the range.
- For telecommunications line installers and repairers the Florida median is $61,740, ranking 32 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Telecommunications line installers and repairers ranks 183 of 493 occupations in Florida by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Take-home for telecommunications line installers and repairers in Florida, on $61,740, is $51,788; deflated by the state's price level, $50,060. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $61,600 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,510 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,740 |
| Top tenth earn over | $80,620 |
| This salary | $61,740 |
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 | $51,788 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,788 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,234 |
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 | $61,740 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,911 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Florida earn less than $61,740. The published range is $37,510 up to $80,620, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $51,788 take-home in Florida comes from $61,740. 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 183 of 493.
- One number stands for prices across all of Florida, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $50,060, the adjusted value of that $61,740 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 183 of 493 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for telecommunications line installers and repairers in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $37,510 to $80,620. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $51,788, from $61,740, 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 183 of 493 locally, and the state ranks 32 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Florida, so $50,060 — the adjusted value of that $61,740 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 183 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $37,510 at the tenth percentile, $80,620 at the ninetieth.
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 $50,060 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $51,788 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($37,510 to $80,620) 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 $50,060 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 $51,788 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.