Florida · BLS May 2025
Also called delivery driver. SOC 53-3031.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 24,380 driver/sales workers working in Florida. Here is what they are paid, what the median leaves after federal and FICA tax, and what that is worth against local prices.
Median pay · Florida
$36,260A year, or $17.43 an hour.| Percentile | Annual | Hourly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentileEntry and lowest-paid | $27,040 | $13.00 |
| 25th percentile | $27,100 | $13.03 |
| MedianHalf earn more, half less | $36,260 | $17.43 |
| 75th percentile | $46,830 | $22.51 |
| 90th percentileMost experienced and senior | $57,080 | $27.44 |
| MeanThe average, pulled up by the top | $38,840 | $18.67 |
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A $36,260 salary in Florida, for one single filer taking the standard deduction in 2026.
Prices in Florida sit at 103.4 against a national average of 100, so $36,260 earned here buys what $35,063 buys at national average prices.
Common questions
The median wage for driver/sales workers in Florida is $36,260 a year, or $17.43 an hour.
Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.
On the median wage of $36,260, one filer taking the standard deduction keeps about $31,315 a year, or roughly $2,610 a month.
That is after federal and FICA tax, an effective rate of 13.6%.
Florida levies no state income tax on wages, so nothing is withheld for it.
No. The median in Florida is 6.5% below the national median of $38,770.
Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Florida sit at 103.4 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.
It is 0.49 times the median household income of $74,568. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.
Prices in Florida run at 103.4 against a national average of 100, with rents at 122.1, so $36,260 here buys about what $35,063 buys at national average prices.
The top tenth earn $57,080 a year or more, against $27,040 at the bottom tenth.
Experience, specialism, employer and the part of Florida someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.
The survey counted 24,380 of these jobs in Florida for May 2025.
That makes the occupation 7% less concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.
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