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Business Operations Specialists, All Other

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metropolitan area. Estimated employment 16,810.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 13-1199
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$79,770 · 50th
$45,27010th
$57,19025th
$79,77050th
$109,61075th
$150,09090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Miami earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$79,770 in Miami buys what $69,900 buys across the country as a whole.

Miami's regional price parity is 114.2 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in Florida

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Miami
Crestview$96,100$99,00097.0+41.7%
Palm Bay$92,250$92,200100.0+32.0%
Panama City$88,610$91,10097.3+30.3%
Tampa$81,610$80,900100.9+15.8%
Miami This page$79,770$69,900114.2
Jacksonville$79,440$79,90099.5+14.3%
North Port$78,900$77,000102.4+10.2%
Naples$77,910$75,500103.2+8.0%

Price parity and difference against Miami are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 59.0% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 33.9% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

Sources

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.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
16,810 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 13-1199, Business Operations Specialists, All Other. Mapped to our taxonomy as business-operations-specialists-all-other.

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