Port St. Lucie, FL Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Port St. Lucie, FL - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Port St. Lucie, FL moved from $44,820 in May 2024 to $46,490 in May 2025 (+3.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Port St. Lucie, FL sits +0.6 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Port St. Lucie, FL
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers publishes $48,590 here versus $58,640 nationally (-17.1%; 2,060metro-area jobs). Next is Registered Nurses at $82,090 locally versus $97,550 nationally (-15.8%).
- Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers$48,590 in Port St. Lucie, FL sits 17.1% below the national Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers median of $58,640 (2,060 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$82,090 in Port St. Lucie, FL sits 15.8% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (5,310 published local jobs).
- Customer Service Representatives$38,380 in Port St. Lucie, FL sits 14.3% below the national Customer Service Representatives median of $44,770 (3,030 published local jobs).
- Nursing Assistants$37,690 in Port St. Lucie, FL sits 10.8% below the national Nursing Assistants median of $42,260 (2,680 published local jobs).
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Port St. Lucie, FL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 38940 · Port St. Lucie, FL $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-LOW #293/528
- RPP-MID 100.2
- OCC-MID 358 occs
- TOP-LEAD Surgeons, All… · $419K
- EMP-MIX Lawyers
- TREND-INLINE +0.6 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Southern Michiga…
- BOOK-FULL 346 rows · May 2025
Read with Southern Michigan nonmetropolitan area ($4 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 Port St. Lucie, FL
Employment scale inside Port St. Lucie, FL's top-pay list
Lawyers and Sales Managers lead published employment inside Port St. Lucie, FL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Lawyers 570 jobs · $132,360
- 2. Sales Managers 540 jobs · $115,330
- 3. Financial Managers 430 jobs · $135,730
- 4. Software Developers 420 jobs · $128,510
- 5. Nurse Practitioners 410 jobs · $128,770
- 6. Pharmacists 330 jobs · $135,230
- 7. Physicians, All Other 270 jobs · $224,530
- 8. Computer and Information Systems Managers 220 jobs · $142,500
- 9. First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers 220 jobs · $120,360
- 10. Marketing Managers 200 jobs · $114,990
- 11. Dentists, General 180 jobs · $154,850
- 12. Family Medicine Physicians 170 jobs · $239,990
- 13. Human Resources Managers 160 jobs · $121,200
- 14. Physician Assistants 150 jobs · $125,930
- 15. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 150 jobs · $122,140
- 16. Commercial Pilots 140 jobs · $173,100
- 17. Veterinarians 100 jobs · $128,260
- 18. Architectural and Engineering Managers 60 jobs · $167,980
Occupations Tracked
358
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$56,980
employment-weighted, 346 complete rows
Top Salary
$419,070
Surgeons, All Other
Cost of Living
100.2
0% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Port St. Lucie, FL
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surgeons, All Other | $419,070 |
| 2 | Family Medicine Physicians | $239,990 |
| 3 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $227,140 |
| 4 | Physicians, All Other | $224,530 |
| 5 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $175,430 |
| 6 | Commercial Pilots | $173,100 |
| 7 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $167,980 |
| 8 | Dentists, General | $154,850 |
| 9 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $142,500 |
| 10 | Financial Managers | $135,730 |
| 11 | Pharmacists | $135,230 |
| 12 | Lawyers | $132,360 |
| 13 | Nurse Practitioners | $128,770 |
| 14 | Software Developers | $128,510 |
| 15 | Veterinarians | $128,260 |
| 16 | Chief Executives | $127,100 |
| 17 | Physician Assistants | $125,930 |
| 18 | Clinical and Counseling Psychologists | $123,300 |
| 19 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $122,140 |
| 20 | Human Resources Managers | $121,200 |
| 21 | First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers | $120,360 |
| 22 | Computer Network Architects | $119,400 |
| 23 | Sales Managers | $115,330 |
| 24 | Electronics Engineers, Except Computer | $115,330 |
| 25 | Marketing Managers | $114,990 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Port St. Lucie, FL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other | $27,300 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $27,740 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $27,950 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $28,410 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $28,570 |
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $28,850 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $29,130 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $29,200 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $29,390 |
| Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders | $30,210 |
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 ($56,980 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.