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.
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.
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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How to use Port St. Lucie, FL wage figures in a real decision
- Surgeons, All Other leads published medians in Port St. Lucie, FL at $419,070/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Surgeons, All Other
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $56,980 adjusts to about $56,850 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 100.2. 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.