Accountant salary in Port St. Lucie, FL

Pay in Port St. Lucie against Florida and the US

Accountants at the 90th percentile earn $125,830, 2.5 times the 10th percentile; the US ratio is 2.6. The middle half of accountants in Port St. Lucie earns $61,940–$97,500. The mean ($86,280) is 9% over the median, so a group of high earners pulls the average up; price a typical hire from the median. From the 25th to the 75th percentile, the local range is only $35,560 wide, against $40,410 across Florida and $42,790 nationally: employers in Port St. Lucie pay within a narrower band.

What to budget for an accountant here

The step from the 25th percentile to the median is $17,490 a year; from the median to the 75th it is $18,070, or about $23,316 once benefits are added. These percentiles describe what people in the job earn locally, not experience levels, so place your offer by the tasks and seniority you need.

For scale, the US median of $83,680 falls between the median and the 75th percentile in Port St. Lucie, and the Florida statewide median of $79,250 falls between the 25th percentile and the median.

What a hire really costs in Port St. Lucie

Pay is only part of it. Benefits and payroll taxes other than paid leave are 22.5% of total compensation in US private industry², which adds about $23,060 to the $79,430 median and brings it to $102,490 a year. Recruiting, equipment and office space come on top. Benefit levels vary by employer, so treat this as an estimate.

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Other roles in Port St. Lucie

Of the 17 roles we track in Port St. Lucie, this one ranks #2 by median pay, after project coordinators ($84,810); marketing specialists come next at $71,310.

Measured against the US median, accountants rank #7 of the 17 roles we track in Port St. Lucie (-5.1%), between bookkeepers (-4.9%) and e-commerce order specialists (-5.6%). The typical role here is at -6.9%, so this job follows the area's general pay level. Accountants hold 7.2% of the jobs in these 17 roles in Port St. Lucie, 7.9% across Florida and 9.1% nationally. The job is a smaller part of the local workforce in these roles than it is nationally.

Other areas in Florida

Across the 24 areas of Florida with data for this job, the median runs from $61,840 in Tallahassee to $84,570 in Naples-Marco Island, a gap of $22,730 a year. Of the 11 areas in Florida with more accountants than Port St. Lucie, 7 pay less, the largest of them Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL ($78,990), Orlando-Kissimmee, FL ($78,630) and Tallahassee, FL ($61,840).

Port St. Lucie against other US metro areas

By number of jobs, Port St. Lucie is #160 of 521 US areas for this job. Both its size and its pay sit in the middle half of US areas. Outside Florida, Virginia Beach-Chesapeake and Peoria pay just above Port St. Lucie and Visalia and Charleston-North Charleston just below. All four are within $110 a year of the median in Port St. Lucie. Of the three markets with about as many accountants, two pay more.

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