Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL moved from $45,410 in May 2024 to $46,630 in May 2025 (+2.7%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL sits -0.4 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

Coaches and Scouts shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

Coaches and Scouts publishes $32,280 here versus $47,320 nationally (-31.8%; 2,550metro-area jobs). Next is Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors at $48,840 locally versus $64,330 nationally (-24.1%).

  1. Coaches and Scouts$32,280 in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL sits 31.8% below the national Coaches and Scouts median of $47,320 (2,550 published local jobs).
  2. Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors$48,840 in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL sits 24.1% below the national Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors median of $64,330 (3,620 published local jobs).
  3. Firefighters$45,520 in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL sits 23.2% below the national Firefighters median of $59,280 (3,580 published local jobs).
  4. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary$82,270 in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL sits 22.3% below the national Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary median of $105,870 (3,150 published local jobs).

Coaches and Scouts and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 36740 · Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL $61K mean

MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL

  • MEAN-MID #176/528
  • RPP-MID 101.4
  • OCC-MOST 607 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Radiologists · $475K
  • EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
  • TREND-INLINE -0.4 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Toledo, OH
  • BOOK-FULL 583 rows · May 2025

Read with Toledo, OH (+$16 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 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KOrlando-Kissimmee-Sa… · this MSA: $61KOrlando-Kissimmee-Sa… · this…$61KToledo, OH · near: $61KToledo, OH · near$61KDuluth, MN-WI · near: $61KDuluth, MN-WI · near$61KAppleton, WI · near: $61KAppleton, WI · near$61KIowa City, IA · near: $61KIowa City, IA · near$61KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
Read the chart as text
Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sa… · this MSA $61K
Toledo, OH · near $61K
Duluth, MN-WI · near $61K
Appleton, WI · near $61K
Iowa City, IA · near $61K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL's top-pay list

Financial Managers and Lawyers lead published employment inside Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Financial Managers 6,190 jobs · $140,850
  2. 2. Lawyers 5,890 jobs · $136,970
  3. 3. Computer and Information Systems Managers 5,190 jobs · $171,210
  4. 4. Marketing Managers 3,420 jobs · $143,220
  5. 5. Pharmacists 2,900 jobs · $135,010
  6. 6. Physicians, All Other 2,390 jobs · $283,600
  7. 7. Architectural and Engineering Managers 1,780 jobs · $177,990
  8. 8. Computer Network Architects 1,730 jobs · $156,560
  9. 9. Human Resources Managers 1,530 jobs · $136,230
  10. 10. Dentists, General 1,320 jobs · $212,300
  11. 11. Electronics Engineers, Except Computer 1,040 jobs · $133,390
  12. 12. Nurse Anesthetists 770 jobs · $214,690
  13. 13. Computer Hardware Engineers 650 jobs · $136,300
  14. 14. Veterinarians 570 jobs · $132,440
  15. 15. General Internal Medicine Physicians 400 jobs · $324,150
  16. 16. Optometrists 290 jobs · $160,090
  17. 17. Database Architects 270 jobs · $143,540
  18. 18. Psychiatrists 180 jobs · $320,250

Occupations Tracked

607

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$60,816

employment-weighted, 583 complete rows

Top Salary

$475,440

Radiologists

Cost of Living

101.4

1% above US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $60,816 by the metro RPP gives $59,966 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Radiologists $475,440
2 Dentists, All Other Specialists $469,750
3 Obstetricians and Gynecologists $337,410
4 General Internal Medicine Physicians $324,150
5 Psychiatrists $320,250
6 Physicians, All Other $283,600
7 Nurse Anesthetists $214,690
8 Dentists, General $212,300
9 Architectural and Engineering Managers $177,990
10 Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates $176,450
11 Computer and Information Systems Managers $171,210
12 Optometrists $160,090
13 Computer Network Architects $156,560
14 Podiatrists $155,960
15 Air Traffic Controllers $147,800
16 Database Architects $143,540
17 Marketing Managers $143,220
18 Financial Managers $140,850
19 Materials Engineers $138,430
20 Lawyers $136,970
21 Computer Hardware Engineers $136,300
22 Human Resources Managers $136,230
23 Pharmacists $135,010
24 Electronics Engineers, Except Computer $133,390
25 Veterinarians $132,440

Lowest Paying Jobs in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

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 ($60,816 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL?
Across the 583 occupation rows for Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $60,816/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 607 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $206,401, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford?
Radiologists holds the highest published median in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL at $475,440/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Dentists, All Other Specialists at $469,750/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL?
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL has a Regional Price Parity of 101.4, meaning prices are 1% above the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $60,816 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $59,966.
Where does BLS salary data for Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford come from?
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

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.

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