Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers in Florida
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,869
after federal, FICA and Florida tax
Tax takes
$7,771
15.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,439
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
$50,640
Kept after tax
$42,869
Worth in national money
$41,439
State rank
36
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Florida pays this job a middle wage of $50,640, 36 of 51 states and about 5.79% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 270 among 493 occupations Florida publishes pay for.
- Costs eat into it here. Of $50,640, tax leaves $42,869 — and because Florida is dearer than average, that stretches only as far as $41,439 would nationally. Averages run higher here, $54,030, since top earners drag the number up.
- Florida's $50,640 median for welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers places it 36 of 51 states, about 5.79% 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.
- Position 270 of 493 in Florida places welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- After tax, $42,869 remains from the Florida median of $50,640 for this occupation. Applying the state's above-average price parity yields $41,439 in national-average terms — the quantity relevant to a relocation decision, and the one absent from essentially every published wage comparison. Mean pay of $54,030 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,200 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $50,640 |
| Top tenth earn over | $70,390 |
| This salary | $50,640 |
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 | $42,869 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,869 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,677 |
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 | $50,640 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,237 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 103 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $50,640 as a midpoint for Florida, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $39,200 and the ninetieth is $70,390 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Florida the take-home figure of $42,869, from $50,640, 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 270 of 493 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $41,439, the adjusted value of that $50,640 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 270 of 493 locally.
- The Florida median of $50,640 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $39,200 to $70,390. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Florida is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $42,869 from $50,640. 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 270 of 493 locally.
- This $41,439 adjusted figure, worked from $50,640, 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 270 of 493 in the state. The occupation ranks 270 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 $54,030, 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 $39,200 at the bottom tenth to $70,390 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 $41,439 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $42,869 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 $54,030. 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 ($39,200 to $70,390) 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 $41,439 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 $42,869 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.