Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL moved from $47,720 in May 2024 to $48,940 in May 2025 (+2.6%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL sits -0.5 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other publishes $33,960 here versus $45,670 nationally (-25.6%; 3,400metro-area jobs). Next is Packers and Packagers, Hand at $28,000 locally versus $36,280 nationally (-22.8%).
- Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other$33,960 in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL sits 25.6% below the national Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other median of $45,670 (3,400 published local jobs).
- Packers and Packagers, Hand$28,000 in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL sits 22.8% below the national Packers and Packagers, Hand median of $36,280 (5,720 published local jobs).
- Financial and Investment Analysts$79,910 in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL sits 22.2% below the national Financial and Investment Analysts median of $102,740 (5,370 published local jobs).
- Instructional Coordinators$60,790 in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL sits 21.5% below the national Instructional Coordinators median of $77,440 (2,280 published local jobs).
Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 45300 · Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL $65K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-HIGH #106/528
- RPP-MID 100.9
- OCC-MOST 629 occs
- TOP-LEAD Orthopedic Sur… · $524K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE -0.5 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Miami-Fort Laude…
- BOOK-FULL 604 rows · May 2025
Read with Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL (+$78 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 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearw…
Employment scale inside Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL's top-pay list
Financial Managers and Computer and Information Systems Managers lead published employment inside Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 8,500 jobs · $157,480
- 2. Computer and Information Systems Managers 6,520 jobs · $168,470
- 3. Physicians, All Other 4,190 jobs · $287,200
- 4. Human Resources Managers 1,830 jobs · $140,400
- 5. Architectural and Engineering Managers 1,480 jobs · $169,310
- 6. Family Medicine Physicians 1,290 jobs · $233,210
- 7. Dentists, General 1,290 jobs · $159,270
- 8. Nurse Anesthetists 1,070 jobs · $206,270
- 9. Purchasing Managers 660 jobs · $139,430
- 10. Optometrists 350 jobs · $138,130
- 11. Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates 200 jobs · $196,890
- 12. Radiologists 190 jobs · $410,170
- 13. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 180 jobs · $229,490
- 14. Podiatrists 150 jobs · $165,280
- 15. Air Traffic Controllers 110 jobs · $150,700
- 16. Physicians, Pathologists 100 jobs · $362,470
- 17. Cardiologists 70 jobs · $515,710
- 18. Surgeons, All Other 70 jobs · $500,390
Occupations Tracked
629
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$65,055
employment-weighted, 604 complete rows
Top Salary
$523,610
Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric
Cost of Living
100.9
1% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric | $523,610 |
| 2 | Cardiologists | $515,710 |
| 3 | Surgeons, All Other | $500,390 |
| 4 | Radiologists | $410,170 |
| 5 | Dermatologists | $397,710 |
| 6 | Physicians, Pathologists | $362,470 |
| 7 | Physicians, All Other | $287,200 |
| 8 | Physicists | $266,260 |
| 9 | Family Medicine Physicians | $233,210 |
| 10 | Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | $229,490 |
| 11 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $228,950 |
| 12 | Nurse Anesthetists | $206,270 |
| 13 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $196,890 |
| 14 | Pediatricians, General | $182,680 |
| 15 | Medical Dosimetrists | $177,250 |
| 16 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $169,310 |
| 17 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $168,470 |
| 18 | Podiatrists | $165,280 |
| 19 | Marketing Managers | $159,990 |
| 20 | Dentists, General | $159,270 |
| 21 | Financial Managers | $157,480 |
| 22 | Air Traffic Controllers | $150,700 |
| 23 | Human Resources Managers | $140,400 |
| 24 | Purchasing Managers | $139,430 |
| 25 | Optometrists | $138,130 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Tree Trimmers and Pruners | $27,040 |
| Passenger Attendants | $27,390 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $28,000 |
| Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers | $28,440 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $28,660 |
| Parking Attendants | $28,900 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $29,260 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $29,380 |
| Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse | $29,400 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $29,520 |
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 ($65,055 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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