Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Salaries
Local wages against a high BEA price level (RPP 114.2) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL moved from $47,920 in May 2024 to $48,640 in May 2025 (+1.5%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL sits -1.6 pp behind 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.
Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors publishes $31,140 here versus $47,160 nationally (-34.0%; 5,470metro-area jobs). Next is Substitute Teachers, Short-Term at $54,050 locally versus $41,670 nationally (+29.7%).
- Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors$31,140 in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL sits 34.0% below the national Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors median of $47,160 (5,470 published local jobs).
- Substitute Teachers, Short-Term$54,050 in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL sits 29.7% above the national Substitute Teachers, Short-Term median of $41,670 (7,940 published local jobs).
- Postsecondary Teachers, All Other$100,080 in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL sits 28.9% above the national Postsecondary Teachers, All Other median of $77,640 (4,240 published local jobs).
- First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers$120,390 in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL sits 28.7% above the national First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers median of $93,530 (3,740 published local jobs).
Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 33100 · Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL $65K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-ELEV · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-HIGH #105/528
- RPP-ELEV 114.2
- OCC-MOST 674 occs
- TOP-LEAD Psychiatrists · $403K
- EMP-MIX Lawyers
- TREND-INLINE -1.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Tampa-St. Peters…
- BOOK-FULL 631 rows · May 2025
Read with Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL ($78 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living
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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West…
Largest Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL payrolls before the high-cost adjustment
Lawyers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Lawyers 23,270 jobs · $160,320
- 2. Financial Managers 14,540 jobs · $164,230
- 3. Computer and Information Systems Managers 9,190 jobs · $169,600
- 4. Physicians, All Other 7,890 jobs · $232,960
- 5. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 4,810 jobs · $216,070
- 6. Human Resources Managers 3,550 jobs · $142,940
- 7. Dentists, General 3,270 jobs · $172,210
- 8. Architectural and Engineering Managers 1,610 jobs · $167,160
- 9. Psychiatrists 720 jobs · $403,430
- 10. Air Traffic Controllers 720 jobs · $162,140
- 11. Database Architects 490 jobs · $141,170
- 12. Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates 360 jobs · $196,890
- 13. Pediatricians, General 250 jobs · $186,620
- 14. Psychologists, All Other 160 jobs · $145,890
- 15. Physicists 100 jobs · $272,480
- 16. Physicians, Pathologists 90 jobs · $332,570
- 17. Dentists, All Other Specialists 60 jobs · $213,570
- 18. Biochemists and Biophysicists 50 jobs · $145,550
Occupations Tracked
674
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$65,133
employment-weighted, 631 complete rows
Top Salary
$403,430
Psychiatrists
Cost of Living
114.2
14% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Psychiatrists | $403,430 |
| 2 | Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric | $396,920 |
| 3 | Physicians, Pathologists | $332,570 |
| 4 | Physicists | $272,480 |
| 5 | Physicians, All Other | $232,960 |
| 6 | Nurse Anesthetists | $232,000 |
| 7 | Family Medicine Physicians | $227,700 |
| 8 | Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | $216,070 |
| 9 | Dentists, All Other Specialists | $213,570 |
| 10 | Emergency Medicine Physicians | $204,990 |
| 11 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $196,890 |
| 12 | Pediatricians, General | $186,620 |
| 13 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $174,990 |
| 14 | Dentists, General | $172,210 |
| 15 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $169,600 |
| 16 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $167,160 |
| 17 | Financial Managers | $164,230 |
| 18 | Air Traffic Controllers | $162,140 |
| 19 | Lawyers | $160,320 |
| 20 | Medical Dosimetrists | $153,490 |
| 21 | Nurse Midwives | $146,590 |
| 22 | Psychologists, All Other | $145,890 |
| 23 | Biochemists and Biophysicists | $145,550 |
| 24 | Human Resources Managers | $142,940 |
| 25 | Database Architects | $141,170 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products | $27,170 |
| Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic | $27,750 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $27,970 |
| Shampooers | $28,540 |
| Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers | $28,840 |
| Hoist and Winch Operators | $29,120 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $29,600 |
| Parking Attendants | $29,650 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $29,750 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $29,790 |
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 ($65,133 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL wage figures in a real decision
- Psychiatrists leads published medians in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL at $403,430/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Psychiatrists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $65,133 adjusts to about $57,057 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 114.2. 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.