Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL moved from $45,980 in May 2024 to $47,510 in May 2025 (+3.3%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL sits +0.2 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Business Operations Specialists, All Other shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL
Business Operations Specialists, All Other publishes $96,100 here versus $83,050 nationally (+15.7%; 2,010metro-area jobs). Next is Fast Food and Counter Workers at $29,220 locally versus $31,200 nationally (-6.3%).
- Business Operations Specialists, All Other$96,100 in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL sits 15.7% above the national Business Operations Specialists, All Other median of $83,050 (2,010 published local jobs).
- Fast Food and Counter Workers$29,220 in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL sits 6.3% below the national Fast Food and Counter Workers median of $31,200 (4,350 published local jobs).
- Waiters and Waitresses$37,370 in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL sits 6.1% above the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (4,430 published local jobs).
- Cashiers$31,000 in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL sits 5.7% below the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (3,090 published local jobs).
Business Operations Specialists, All Other and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 18880 · Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL $62K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #146/528
- RPP-MID 97.0
- OCC-MID 330 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $322K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE +0.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH St. Cloud, MN
- BOOK-FULL 325 rows · May 2025
Read with St. Cloud, MN (+$42 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Crestview-Fort Walton Beach…
Employment scale inside Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL's top-pay list
Software Developers and Engineers, All Other lead published employment inside Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 1,380 jobs · $130,640
- 2. Engineers, All Other 830 jobs · $132,650
- 3. Financial Managers 490 jobs · $145,810
- 4. Sales Managers 400 jobs · $125,570
- 5. Nurse Practitioners 330 jobs · $124,680
- 6. Chief Executives 300 jobs · $186,440
- 7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 230 jobs · $161,140
- 8. Physicians, All Other 220 jobs · $278,460
- 9. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers 210 jobs · $124,040
- 10. Aerospace Engineers 190 jobs · $128,440
- 11. Pharmacists 170 jobs · $136,070
- 12. Architectural and Engineering Managers 160 jobs · $163,840
- 13. Electrical Engineers 160 jobs · $123,560
- 14. Marketing Managers 150 jobs · $155,080
- 15. Veterinarians 120 jobs · $128,990
- 16. Computer Hardware Engineers 120 jobs · $128,060
- 17. Computer Network Architects 110 jobs · $127,490
- 18. Commercial Pilots 110 jobs · $126,270
Occupations Tracked
330
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$62,448
employment-weighted, 325 complete rows
Top Salary
$322,030
Family Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
97.0
3% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Family Medicine Physicians | $322,030 |
| 2 | Physicians, All Other | $278,460 |
| 3 | Nurse Anesthetists | $215,990 |
| 4 | Chief Executives | $186,440 |
| 5 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $163,840 |
| 6 | Dentists, General | $163,700 |
| 7 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $161,140 |
| 8 | Marketing Managers | $155,080 |
| 9 | Financial Managers | $145,810 |
| 10 | Purchasing Managers | $136,970 |
| 11 | Pharmacists | $136,070 |
| 12 | Engineers, All Other | $132,650 |
| 13 | Physician Assistants | $130,730 |
| 14 | Software Developers | $130,640 |
| 15 | Human Resources Managers | $129,500 |
| 16 | Veterinarians | $128,990 |
| 17 | Aerospace Engineers | $128,440 |
| 18 | Computer Hardware Engineers | $128,060 |
| 19 | Computer Network Architects | $127,490 |
| 20 | Commercial Pilots | $126,270 |
| 21 | Sales Managers | $125,570 |
| 22 | Nurse Practitioners | $124,680 |
| 23 | Training and Development Managers | $124,520 |
| 24 | Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers | $124,040 |
| 25 | Electrical Engineers | $123,560 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $28,260 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $29,220 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $29,610 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $29,830 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $29,890 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $29,940 |
| Dishwashers | $30,470 |
| Animal Caretakers | $30,730 |
| Cashiers | $31,000 |
| Substitute Teachers, Short-Term | $31,200 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in FL
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
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Two OEWS peer sets outside FL. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($62,448 here) and summed published employment.
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Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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