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.
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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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.