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.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
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.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
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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Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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- Family Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL at $322,030/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Family Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $62,448 adjusts to about $64,359 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 97.0. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for FL before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.