Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$80,284
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$21,286
21.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$77,606
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
$101,570
Kept after tax
$80,284
Worth in national money
$77,606
State rank
32
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Florida sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $101,570, ranking 32 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 493 occupations Florida reports, this job comes in at 50 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Florida is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $101,570 the take-home is $80,284; in national-average money that behaves like $77,606. The average comes to $113,060, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Florida occupies the middle band for transportation, storage, and distribution managers: a median of $101,570, ranking 32 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.
- Transportation, storage, and distribution managers ranks 50 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.
- Take-home for transportation, storage, and distribution managers in Florida, on $101,570, is $80,284; deflated by the state's price level, $77,606. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $113,060 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $54,490 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $101,570 |
| Top tenth earn over | $173,950 |
| This salary | $101,570 |
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 | $80,284 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $80,284 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,013 |
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 | $101,570 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,924 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $101,570 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $54,490 and the ninetieth is $173,950 — 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 $80,284, worked from $101,570. 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 50 of 493.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $77,606 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 50.
- The Florida median of $101,570 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $54,490 to $173,950. 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 $80,284, on $101,570 for work ranking 50 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 50 of 493 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $77,606, worked from $101,570, 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 50 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 $113,060, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $54,490 at the bottom tenth to $173,950 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $77,606 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $80,284 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 $113,060. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($54,490) and the ninetieth ($173,950) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $77,606 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 $80,284 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.