Veterinarians in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$101,256
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$30,404
23.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$97,877
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
$131,660
Kept after tax
$101,256
Worth in national money
$97,877
State rank
13
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Florida is one of the better-paying states for veterinarians. The middle earner takes $131,660, which ranks 13 of 49 states with published figures. That is about 1.2% above the national middle.
- Within Florida this is well-paid work. Of 493 occupations with published figures in the state, veterinarians ranks 18 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $131,660, tax leaves $101,256 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $97,877 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $139,760, since top earners drag the number up.
- Florida ranks 13 of 49 states publishing a median for veterinarians, at $131,660 — about 1.2% 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.
- Ranked against every occupation Florida publishes a median for, veterinarians sits 18 of 493 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- After tax, $101,256 remains from the Florida median of $131,660 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $97,877 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $139,760 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Veterinarians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $62,430 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $131,660 |
| Top tenth earn over | $209,520 |
| This salary | $131,660 |
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 | $101,256 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $101,256 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$6,322 |
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 | $131,660 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,989 |
| 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 veterinarians in Florida earn under $131,660 and half over. The published range runs $62,430 at the tenth percentile to $209,520 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $101,256, from $131,660, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 18 of 493 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $97,877 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 18.
- Figures are distribution medians for veterinarians in Florida, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $62,430 to $209,520; 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.
- Take-home for Florida is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $101,256 from $131,660. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 18 of 493 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $97,877, worked from $131,660, 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 18 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 $139,760 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $62,430 and the top tenth $209,520 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $97,877 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $101,256 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.
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 $139,760. 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 ($62,430) and the ninetieth ($209,520) 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 $97,877 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 $101,256 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.