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title: "Average Salary in Tampa, FL"
description: "Mean $66,490, median $48,940 in the Tampa metro area (BLS OEWS May 2025), with prices and top jobs."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/average-salary/tampa-fl"
last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z"
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# Average salary in Tampa, FL

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $66,490, median $48,940 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 1,447,120 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $48,510.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $30,190 |
| 25th | $36,670 |
| 50th | $48,940 |
| 75th | $77,860 |
| 90th | $121,920 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 100.9 |
| Housing (rents) | 125.8 |
| Goods | 95.5 |
| Utilities | 88.5 |
| Other services | 97.6 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Dentist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dentist): $230,980
- [Nurse Anesthetist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/nurse-anesthetist): $194,540
- [Judge](https://nuecareer.com/careers/judge): $185,220
- [Medical Dosimetrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/medical-dosimetrist): $176,470
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $176,050
- [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager): $175,760
- [Marketing Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/marketing-manager): $173,990
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $171,330
- [Pediatrician, General](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatrician-general): $156,940
- [Podiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/podiatrist): $155,880

Occupation pay is the OEWS May 2025 metro mean as published in the DOL OFLC 2026–27 wage file (metro-level estimates only).

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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