Tree Trimmers and Pruners in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,197
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$6,873
14.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$37,889
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
$46,070
Kept after tax
$39,197
Worth in national money
$37,889
State rank
38
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Florida pays tree trimmers and pruners a middle wage of $46,070, 38 of 49 states and about 9.6% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Against other work in Florida, this sits in the middle: 340 of 493 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $46,070, tax leaves $39,197 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $37,889 would nationally. Here the average runs under the middle, at $45,670.
- Florida's $46,070 median for tree trimmers and pruners places it 38 of 49 states, about 9.6% 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.
- Tree trimmers and pruners ranks 340 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.
- After tax, $39,197 remains from the Florida median of $46,070 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $37,889 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $45,670 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Tree Trimmers and Pruners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $28,690 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,070 |
| Top tenth earn over | $58,210 |
| This salary | $46,070 |
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 | $39,197 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,197 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,447 |
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 | $46,070 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,960 |
| 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 $46,070. The published range is $28,690 up to $58,210, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Florida's $39,197, worked from $46,070. 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 340 of 493.
- Two cautions on $37,889, the adjusted value of that $46,070 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 340 of 493 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for tree trimmers and pruners in Florida the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $28,690 to $58,210. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Florida take-home of $39,197, on $46,070 for work ranking 340 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 340 of 493 in the state.
- This $37,889 adjusted figure, worked from $46,070, 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 340 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 340 of 493 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $28,690 at the bottom tenth to $58,210 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $37,889 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $39,197 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 49 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($28,690 to $58,210) 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 $37,889 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 $39,197 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.