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.
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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