Tallahassee, FL Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Tallahassee, FL - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Tallahassee, FL moved from $45,760 in May 2024 to $46,520 in May 2025 (+1.7%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Tallahassee, FL sits -1.4 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Management Analysts shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Tallahassee, FL
Management Analysts publishes $58,860 here versus $101,860 nationally (-42.2%; 6,160metro-area jobs). Next is Lawyers at $103,320 locally versus $159,670 nationally (-35.3%).
- Management Analysts$58,860 in Tallahassee, FL sits 42.2% below the national Management Analysts median of $101,860 (6,160 published local jobs).
- Lawyers$103,320 in Tallahassee, FL sits 35.3% below the national Lawyers median of $159,670 (2,170 published local jobs).
- Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other$30,120 in Tallahassee, FL sits 34.0% below the national Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other median of $45,670 (2,420 published local jobs).
- Accountants and Auditors$61,840 in Tallahassee, FL sits 26.1% below the national Accountants and Auditors median of $83,680 (2,450 published local jobs).
Management Analysts and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Tallahassee, FL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 45220 · Tallahassee, FL $58K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MID #244/528
- RPP-LOW 93.9
- OCC-MID 378 occs
- TOP-LEAD Surgeons, All… · $322K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE -1.4 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Fort Wayne, IN
- BOOK-FULL 376 rows · May 2025
Read with Fort Wayne, IN (+$0 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 Tallahassee, FL
Employment scale inside Tallahassee, FL's top-pay list
Software Developers and Computer and Information Systems Managers lead published employment inside Tallahassee, FL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 1,320 jobs · $121,800
- 2. Computer and Information Systems Managers 740 jobs · $131,640
- 3. Sales Managers 620 jobs · $117,350
- 4. Physicians, All Other 440 jobs · $217,800
- 5. Nurse Practitioners 350 jobs · $117,880
- 6. Pharmacists 340 jobs · $130,620
- 7. Marketing Managers 320 jobs · $116,460
- 8. Physician Assistants 180 jobs · $125,410
- 9. Veterinarians 170 jobs · $140,830
- 10. Architectural and Engineering Managers 170 jobs · $140,790
- 11. Family Medicine Physicians 160 jobs · $171,360
- 12. Public Relations Managers 150 jobs · $104,790
- 13. Industrial Production Managers 120 jobs · $110,360
- 14. Dentists, General 110 jobs · $166,800
- 15. Computer Network Architects 110 jobs · $110,780
- 16. Electrical Engineers 80 jobs · $111,210
- 17. Compensation and Benefits Managers 80 jobs · $105,490
- 18. Psychiatrists 60 jobs · $318,460
Occupations Tracked
378
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$58,497
employment-weighted, 376 complete rows
Top Salary
$322,350
Surgeons, All Other
Cost of Living
93.9
6% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Tallahassee, FL
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surgeons, All Other | $322,350 |
| 2 | Psychiatrists | $318,460 |
| 3 | Physicians, All Other | $217,800 |
| 4 | Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers | $177,150 |
| 5 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $173,370 |
| 6 | Family Medicine Physicians | $171,360 |
| 7 | Dentists, General | $166,800 |
| 8 | Veterinarians | $140,830 |
| 9 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $140,790 |
| 10 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $131,640 |
| 11 | Pharmacists | $130,620 |
| 12 | Sales Engineers | $128,000 |
| 13 | Actuaries | $125,670 |
| 14 | Physician Assistants | $125,410 |
| 15 | Software Developers | $121,800 |
| 16 | Environmental Engineers | $121,390 |
| 17 | Nurse Practitioners | $117,880 |
| 18 | Sales Managers | $117,350 |
| 19 | Marketing Managers | $116,460 |
| 20 | Electrical Engineers | $111,210 |
| 21 | Computer Network Architects | $110,780 |
| 22 | Emergency Management Directors | $110,550 |
| 23 | Industrial Production Managers | $110,360 |
| 24 | Compensation and Benefits Managers | $105,490 |
| 25 | Public Relations Managers | $104,790 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Tallahassee, FL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $27,270 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $27,480 |
| Parking Attendants | $27,550 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $27,600 |
| Funeral Attendants | $27,650 |
| Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials | $27,720 |
| Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors | $28,180 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $28,250 |
| Demonstrators and Product Promoters | $28,370 |
| Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers | $28,490 |
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 ($58,497 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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