As employment income is usually the source of money to pay home mortgage loans, it can be said that the 30 highest paying jobs in Tampa can significantly impact the Tampa Bay real estate market. If these thousands of highly-paid professionals or employees buy their first homes, sell their homes and buy a better one, or invest in one or more homes, then they help energize the real estate sector.
If the self-employed individuals are considered, then the real estate market impact would even be greater. This survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) does not include the self-employed.
Here are the highest paying jobs in Tampa (jobs with at least 1,000 employees), based on the May 2011 occupational and wage estimates of the BLS for the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metropolitan area.
Mean Occupations
annual
salaries
$210,080 Physicians and Surgeons
$193,800 CEOs
$146,350 Sales Managers
$125,980 Computer and Information Systems Managers
$116,230 Architectural and Engineering Managers
$114,750 Financial Managers
$109,790 General and Operations Managers
$108,900 Lawyers
$108,310 Pharmacists
$107,550 Marketing Managers
$104,820 Administrative Services Managers
$102,380 Medical and Health Services Managers
$94,370 Postsecondary Health Specialties Teachers
$88,570 Occupational Therapists
$88,490 Construction Managers
$86,770 First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
$85,930 Systems Software Developers
$84,420 Personal Financial Advisors
$84,350 Sales Reps, Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
$83,720 Applications Software Developers
$83,160 Civil Engineers
$82,190 Computer Systems Analysts
$80,640 Physical Therapists
$79,270 Securities, Commodities and Financial Services Sales Agents
$77,660 Mechanical Engineers
$74,810 Postsecondary Teachers
$74,210 Detectives and Criminal Investigators
$73,730 Network and Computer Systems Administrators
$73,690 Electrical Engineers
$71,760 Computer Programmers
Without considering the number of employees, the two highest paying jobs in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area are the general internists and the general pediatricians:
$230,390 General Internists
$224,470 General Pediatricians
Among the 30 highest paying jobs in Tampa, the ones with the biggest number of individuals holding these jobs are the following:
11,980 General and Operations Managers
7,430 Lawyers
4,440 Computer Systems Analysts
4,520 Sales Reps, Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
4,130 Applications Software Developers 4,130
3,520 Securities, Commodities and Financial Services Sales Agents
3,520 Computer Programmers
3,260 Financial Managers
3,100 Physicians and Surgeons
3,030 Pharmacists