North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL moved from $46,030 in May 2024 to $47,440 in May 2025 (+3.1%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL sits -0.0 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel publishes $57,780 here versus $69,990 nationally (-17.4%; 3,570metro-area jobs). Next is Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers at $50,890 locally versus $58,640 nationally (-13.2%).
- Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel$57,780 in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL sits 17.4% below the national Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel median of $69,990 (3,570 published local jobs).
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers$50,890 in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL sits 13.2% below the national Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers median of $58,640 (2,930 published local jobs).
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products$63,240 in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL sits 12.3% below the national Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products median of $72,080 (3,410 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$86,130 in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL sits 11.7% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (8,380 published local jobs).
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 35840 · North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL $61K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #180/528
- RPP-MID 102.4
- OCC-MOST 456 occs
- TOP-LEAD Family Medicin… · $322K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE -0.0 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Birmingham, AL
- BOOK-FULL 443 rows · May 2025
Read with Birmingham, AL ($29 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 North Port-Bradenton-Saraso…
Employment scale inside North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL's top-pay list
Software Developers and Lawyers lead published employment inside North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 1,680 jobs · $131,890
- 2. Lawyers 1,440 jobs · $136,910
- 3. Sales Managers 1,320 jobs · $124,820
- 4. Financial Managers 1,090 jobs · $145,450
- 5. Physicians, All Other 970 jobs · $280,490
- 6. Computer and Information Systems Managers 810 jobs · $142,620
- 7. Pharmacists 790 jobs · $138,760
- 8. Nurse Practitioners 630 jobs · $134,470
- 9. Family Medicine Physicians 580 jobs · $321,550
- 10. Physician Assistants 520 jobs · $142,510
- 11. Marketing Managers 510 jobs · $128,320
- 12. Dentists, General 450 jobs · $241,850
- 13. Industrial Production Managers 350 jobs · $123,760
- 14. Human Resources Managers 270 jobs · $132,620
- 15. Architectural and Engineering Managers 210 jobs · $174,380
- 16. Data Scientists 210 jobs · $146,980
- 17. Veterinarians 200 jobs · $136,840
- 18. Computer Network Architects 130 jobs · $131,160
Occupations Tracked
456
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$60,668
employment-weighted, 443 complete rows
Top Salary
$321,550
Family Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
102.4
2% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Family Medicine Physicians | $321,550 |
| 2 | Physicians, All Other | $280,490 |
| 3 | Dentists, General | $241,850 |
| 4 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $207,230 |
| 5 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $174,380 |
| 6 | Optometrists | $162,690 |
| 7 | Database Architects | $157,730 |
| 8 | Sales Engineers | $147,130 |
| 9 | Data Scientists | $146,980 |
| 10 | Financial Managers | $145,450 |
| 11 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $142,620 |
| 12 | Physician Assistants | $142,510 |
| 13 | Pharmacists | $138,760 |
| 14 | Lawyers | $136,910 |
| 15 | Veterinarians | $136,840 |
| 16 | Nurse Practitioners | $134,470 |
| 17 | Human Resources Managers | $132,620 |
| 18 | Software Developers | $131,890 |
| 19 | Computer Network Architects | $131,160 |
| 20 | Fundraising Managers | $130,400 |
| 21 | Purchasing Managers | $128,330 |
| 22 | Marketing Managers | $128,320 |
| 23 | Electronics Engineers, Except Computer | $126,830 |
| 24 | Sales Managers | $124,820 |
| 25 | Industrial Production Managers | $123,760 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $28,310 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $29,550 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $29,690 |
| Funeral Attendants | $29,780 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $30,000 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $30,010 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $30,360 |
| School Bus Monitors | $30,670 |
| Cashiers | $31,240 |
| Dishwashers | $31,370 |
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 ($60,668 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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