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.
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.
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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How to use Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL wage figures in a real decision
- Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric leads published medians in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL at $523,610/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $65,055 adjusts to about $64,481 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 100.9. 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.