Accountants and Auditors
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metropolitan area. Estimated employment 14,770.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of accountants and auditors in Tampa earn more.
$78,990 in Tampa buys what $78,300 buys across the country as a whole.
Tampa's regional price parity is 100.9 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
What comes next
Median offered base pay by seniority for Accountants and Auditors in Tampa, classified from job titles on visa filings.
The same job, elsewhere in Florida
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Tampa |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naples | $84,570 | $81,900 | 103.2 | +4.7% |
| North Port | $81,090 | $79,200 | 102.4 | +1.1% |
| Miami | $80,920 | $70,900 | 114.2 | −9.5% |
| Jacksonville | $79,960 | $80,400 | 99.5 | +2.7% |
| Crestview | $79,510 | $81,900 | 97.0 | +4.7% |
| Port St. Lucie | $79,430 | $79,200 | 100.2 | +1.2% |
| Cape Coral | $79,420 | $77,600 | 102.3 | −0.9% |
| Tampa This page | $78,990 | $78,300 | 100.9 | — |
Price parity and difference against Tampa are in the full table on wider screens.
Nominal against real
The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.
Published pay rose 22.0% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 2.7% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Career ladder
- Seniority classified from job titles on the same visa filings; levels shown only with five or more filings each and a strictly rising progression.
- Inflation
- Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
- Employment
- 14,770 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 13-2011, Accountants and Auditors. Mapped to our taxonomy as accountants-and-auditors.
Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.