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Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners

Port St. Lucie, FL metropolitan area. Estimated employment 1,280.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 37-2012
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$32,790 · 50th
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$35,45075th
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That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Port St. Lucie earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$32,790 in Port St. Lucie buys what $32,700 buys across the country as a whole.

Port St. Lucie's regional price parity is 100.2 — almost exactly the national average — the nominal figure is close to the real one here, which is not true of most large metros. 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. Port St. Lucie
Naples$35,590$34,500103.2+5.4%
Orlando$35,150$34,700101.4+5.9%
Miami$34,360$30,100114.2−8.0%
North Port$33,960$33,200102.4+1.4%
Gainesville$33,680$34,80096.7+6.4%
Cape Coral$33,640$32,900102.3+0.5%
Lakeland$33,170$34,10097.1+4.4%
Port St. Lucie This page$32,790$32,700100.2

Price parity and difference against Port St. Lucie 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 37.9% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 16.1% — 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
1,280 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 37-2012, Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners. Mapped to our taxonomy as maids-and-housekeeping-cleaners.

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