Compared with the local labor market
Child Protective Investigator pay vs. Florida
Across all employers in Florida, the median wage for Child, Family, and School Social Workers — about 14,000 people — is $56,550. Department of Children and Families pays a median base salary of $50,000 for this role, 12% below that figure — about the 33rd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Department of Children and Families sits in the local pay range
$39,760
$47,130
$56,550
$64,940
$79,580
Department of Children and Families median · $50,000
The bar is the range of annual wages for Child, Family, and School Social Workers across every employer in Florida, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department of Children and Families’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Child, Family, and School Social Workers — about 392,550 people — is $59,550. Department of Children and Families’s median base salary is 16% below that national figure, about the 29th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$42,280
$48,270
$59,550
$76,070
$95,530
Department of Children and Families median · $50,000
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Florida range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 1,129 of 1,131 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Department of Children and Families is $50,000, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare jurisdictions
Child Protective Investigator beyond Florida
This role is reported in 2 jurisdictions. In Florida, the median of $50,000 ranks #1 of 2. See Child Protective Investigator across all of Florida →
Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role
Median total compensation for comparable Child Protective Investigatorroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.