Wildwood-The Villages, FL Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 85.4) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Wildwood-The Villages, FL moved from $44,660 in May 2024 to $45,830 in May 2025 (+2.6%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Wildwood-The Villages, FL sits -0.5 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 48680 · Wildwood-The Villages, FL $58K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-QUIET · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #250/528
- RPP-QUIET 85.4
- OCC-THIN 192 occs
- TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $286K
- EMP-MIX Medical and…
- TREND-INLINE -0.5 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Wichita, KS
- BOOK-MOST 186 rows · May 2025
Read with Wichita, KS (+$4 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living
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 Wildwood-The Villages, FL
Where Wildwood-The Villages, FL already employs the upper wage tier
Medical and Health Services Managers and Nurse Practitioners lead published employment inside Wildwood-The Villages, FL's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Medical and Health Services Managers 250 jobs · $104,760
- 2. Nurse Practitioners 170 jobs · $124,930
- 3. Construction Managers 150 jobs · $109,120
- 4. Physicians, All Other 140 jobs · $286,310
- 5. Financial Managers 140 jobs · $149,880
- 6. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 140 jobs · $103,060
- 7. Pharmacists 130 jobs · $128,640
- 8. Software Developers 130 jobs · $128,560
- 9. Management Analysts 120 jobs · $99,300
- 10. Managers, All Other 110 jobs · $100,970
- 11. Sales Managers 90 jobs · $125,340
- 12. Physical Therapists 80 jobs · $99,610
- 13. Lawyers 70 jobs · $124,700
- 14. Electrical Engineers 70 jobs · $111,200
- 15. Speech-Language Pathologists 70 jobs · $102,260
- 16. Family Medicine Physicians 60 jobs · $223,580
- 17. Computer and Information Systems Managers 60 jobs · $161,820
- 18. Chief Executives 60 jobs · $138,560
Occupations Tracked
192
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$58,368
employment-weighted, 186 complete rows
Top Salary
$286,310
Physicians, All Other
Cost of Living
85.4
15% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Wildwood-The Villages, FL, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $104,760 |
| 2 | Nurse Practitioners | $124,930 |
| 3 | Construction Managers | $109,120 |
| 4 | Physicians, All Other | $286,310 |
| 5 | Financial Managers | $149,880 |
| 6 | Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers | $103,060 |
| 7 | Pharmacists | $128,640 |
| 8 | Software Developers | $128,560 |
| 9 | Management Analysts | $99,300 |
| 10 | Managers, All Other | $100,970 |
| 11 | Sales Managers | $125,340 |
| 12 | Physical Therapists | $99,610 |
| 13 | Lawyers | $124,700 |
| 14 | Electrical Engineers | $111,200 |
| 15 | Speech-Language Pathologists | $102,260 |
| 16 | Family Medicine Physicians | $223,580 |
| 17 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $161,820 |
| 18 | Chief Executives | $138,560 |
| 19 | Dentists, General | $170,180 |
| 20 | Marketing Managers | $147,180 |
| 21 | Physician Assistants | $131,710 |
| 22 | Human Resources Managers | $113,770 |
| 23 | Computer Occupations, All Other | $109,780 |
| 24 | Industrial Production Managers | $122,540 |
| 25 | Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | $100,520 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Wildwood-The Villages, FL
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $27,160 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $28,280 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $28,690 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $28,810 |
| Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment | $28,860 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $29,200 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $29,300 |
| Dishwashers | $29,430 |
| Animal Caretakers | $29,960 |
| Cashiers | $30,450 |
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 ($58,368 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
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.