Jacksonville, FL Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Jacksonville, FL - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Jacksonville, FL moved from $47,030 in May 2024 to $48,830 in May 2025 (+3.8%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Jacksonville, FL sits +0.7 pp ahead of 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.
Physicians, All Other shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Jacksonville, FL
Physicians, All Other publishes $349,990 here versus $265,930 nationally (+31.6%; 2,070metro-area jobs). Next is Managers, All Other at $106,620 locally versus $141,900 nationally (-24.9%).
- Physicians, All Other$349,990 in Jacksonville, FL sits 31.6% above the national Physicians, All Other median of $265,930 (2,070 published local jobs).
- Managers, All Other$106,620 in Jacksonville, FL sits 24.9% below the national Managers, All Other median of $141,900 (2,660 published local jobs).
- Lawyers$127,920 in Jacksonville, FL sits 19.9% below the national Lawyers median of $159,670 (3,760 published local jobs).
- Management Analysts$83,220 in Jacksonville, FL sits 18.3% below the national Management Analysts median of $101,860 (5,460 published local jobs).
Physicians, All Other and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Jacksonville, FL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 27260 · Jacksonville, FL $65K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-HIGH #109/528
- RPP-MID 99.5
- OCC-MOST 579 occs
- TOP-LEAD Cardiologists · $515K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE +0.7 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Lansing-East Lan…
- BOOK-FULL 565 rows · May 2025
Read with Lansing-East Lansing, MI (+$5 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 Jacksonville, FL
Employment scale inside Jacksonville, FL's top-pay list
Financial Managers and Computer and Information Systems Managers lead published employment inside Jacksonville, FL's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 4,570 jobs · $138,780
- 2. Computer and Information Systems Managers 3,000 jobs · $169,010
- 3. Physicians, All Other 2,070 jobs · $349,990
- 4. Marketing Managers 1,700 jobs · $156,950
- 5. Pharmacists 1,420 jobs · $138,990
- 6. Family Medicine Physicians 750 jobs · $166,680
- 7. Architectural and Engineering Managers 660 jobs · $167,800
- 8. Dentists, General 640 jobs · $165,350
- 9. Air Traffic Controllers 450 jobs · $170,120
- 10. Purchasing Managers 370 jobs · $136,970
- 11. Nurse Anesthetists 340 jobs · $416,000
- 12. General Internal Medicine Physicians 220 jobs · $228,220
- 13. Optometrists 150 jobs · $161,560
- 14. Database Architects 150 jobs · $136,640
- 15. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 120 jobs · $151,070
- 16. Cardiologists 90 jobs · $514,740
- 17. Psychiatrists 90 jobs · $319,610
- 18. Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates 90 jobs · $173,920
Occupations Tracked
579
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$64,638
employment-weighted, 565 complete rows
Top Salary
$514,740
Cardiologists
Cost of Living
99.5
1% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Jacksonville, FL
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cardiologists | $514,740 |
| 2 | Nurse Anesthetists | $416,000 |
| 3 | Radiologists | $384,990 |
| 4 | Physicians, All Other | $349,990 |
| 5 | Psychiatrists | $319,610 |
| 6 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $228,220 |
| 7 | Chief Executives | $225,410 |
| 8 | Biochemists and Biophysicists | $174,880 |
| 9 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $173,920 |
| 10 | Air Traffic Controllers | $170,120 |
| 11 | Podiatrists | $169,520 |
| 12 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $169,010 |
| 13 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $167,800 |
| 14 | Family Medicine Physicians | $166,680 |
| 15 | Dentists, General | $165,350 |
| 16 | Optometrists | $161,560 |
| 17 | Marketing Managers | $156,950 |
| 18 | Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | $151,070 |
| 19 | Medical Dosimetrists | $150,210 |
| 20 | Pharmacists | $138,990 |
| 21 | Financial Managers | $138,780 |
| 22 | Computer and Information Research Scientists | $136,990 |
| 23 | Economists | $136,990 |
| 24 | Purchasing Managers | $136,970 |
| 25 | Database Architects | $136,640 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Jacksonville, FL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Cooks, Fast Food | $27,600 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,470 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $28,520 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $28,580 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $28,900 |
| School Bus Monitors | $29,390 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $29,440 |
| Parking Attendants | $29,720 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $29,750 |
| Funeral Attendants | $29,960 |
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 ($64,638 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
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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How to use Jacksonville, FL wage figures in a real decision
- Cardiologists leads published medians in Jacksonville, FL at $514,740/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Cardiologists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $64,638 adjusts to about $64,973 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 99.5. 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.