Conservation Scientists · SOC 19-1031

Conservation Scientists Salary in the Port St. Lucie Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Port St. Lucie, FL metro area

Figures describe the Port St. Lucie, FL metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Port St. Lucie city limits.

Median annual wage$43,680
Median hourly wage$21.00

Conservation Scientists in the Port St. Lucie, FL metro area earned a median of $43,680 per year ($21.00 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $35,360 at the 10th percentile to $96,510 at the 90th. BLS estimates 30 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Conservation Scientists in the Port St. Lucie metro area earn more than $43,680 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $37,110 and $71,820.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$35,360$37,110$43,680$71,820$96,510
Hourly$17.00$17.84$21.00$34.53$46.40

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Port St. Lucie metro areathis metro area
    $43,680 median for Port St. Lucie metro area; middle half earns $37,110 to $71,820
  • Floridastate (FL)
    $51,130 median for Florida; middle half earns $40,830 to $72,820
  • $73,010 median for United States; middle half earns $57,700 to $91,560

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is −15% vs Florida overall and −40% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

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Where this metro sits nationally

$36,780$61,253$85,727$110,200Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $36,780Port St. Lucie, FL — $43,680Columbia, SC — $45,910Tallahassee, FL — $46,260Kahului-Wailuku, HI — $47,100Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $48,300Jacksonville, FL — $49,880Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $50,300Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $51,130Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $54,170Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $54,250Lancaster, PA — $54,350Tucson, AZ — $55,990Jefferson City, MO — $56,310Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $57,110Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $57,550Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $58,590Pittsburgh, PA — $58,960Jackson, MS — $59,070Reading, PA — $60,000Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $60,520Baton Rouge, LA — $61,110Eugene-Springfield, OR — $61,370Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $61,630Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $61,690St. Louis, MO-IL — $62,390Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $62,460Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $62,710Kansas City, MO-KS — $63,050Oklahoma City, OK — $63,130Cleveland, OH — $63,160North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $63,370Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $63,790New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $64,020Champaign-Urbana, IL — $64,470Amarillo, TX — $64,680Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $64,910Ann Arbor, MI — $65,110Asheville, NC — $65,170Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $65,280Gainesville, FL — $65,480Syracuse, NY — $65,480Urban Honolulu, HI — $65,740Columbus, OH — $66,110San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $66,120Richmond, VA — $66,180Springfield, MO — $66,230Akron, OH — $66,420Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $66,680Rochester, NY — $66,990Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $67,080Boise City, ID — $67,200Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $67,200Tulsa, OK — $67,200Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $67,580Reno, NV — $68,090Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA — $68,560Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $68,620Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $68,620Brownsville-Harlingen, TX — $68,620Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $68,620Waco, TX — $68,620Helena, MT — $69,240Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $69,380Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $69,590Tyler, TX — $69,880Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $70,300Rapid City, SD — $70,450Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $71,460Santa Fe, NM — $72,280Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $72,860Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $73,920Omaha, NE-IA — $74,210Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $74,320Corvallis, OR — $74,410Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $75,090Bozeman, MT — $75,430Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $75,900Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $76,210Anchorage, AK — $76,430Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $76,540Fresno, CA — $76,770Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $76,940Medford, OR — $76,960Salinas, CA — $77,020Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA — $77,190San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $77,280Bellingham, WA — $77,600Worcester, MA — $77,620Fairbanks-College, AK — $77,640Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $77,860Lubbock, TX — $77,980San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $78,200Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $78,340Portland-South Portland, ME — $78,440Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA — $78,460Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $78,460Yakima, WA — $78,460Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $78,580Bismarck, ND — $78,850Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $78,980Raleigh-Cary, NC — $79,230Flagstaff, AZ — $79,310Albuquerque, NM — $79,420La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN — $79,440Duluth, MN-WI — $79,680Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $80,150Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $80,290Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $80,880Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $80,900Lincoln, NE — $81,170Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $81,190Green Bay, WI — $81,560Charleston, WV — $81,760Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $81,780Barnstable Town, MA — $82,090Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $82,380Carson City, NV — $82,420Bend, OR — $82,630Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $83,580Missoula, MT — $84,250Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $84,820Madison, WI — $85,110Eau Claire, WI — $86,070Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $86,770Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $93,470Salem, OR — $95,470San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $97,810Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $99,360Boulder, CO — $101,380Springfield, IL — $107,990San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $110,200

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Port St. Lucie metro area has the 131st-highest published median for this occupation among the 132 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Florida

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for conservation scientists, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Port St. Lucie metro areathis page
    $43,680 median for Port St. Lucie metro area; middle half earns $37,110 to $71,820
  • $65,480 median for Gainesville metro area; middle half earns $48,050 to $94,520
  • $63,370 median for North Port metro area; middle half earns $50,790 to $82,750
  • $61,690 median for Tampa metro area; middle half earns $49,990 to $78,850
  • $61,630 median for Orlando metro area; middle half earns $51,630 to $84,490
  • $51,130 median for Miami metro area; middle half earns $44,800 to $68,100
  • $49,880 median for Jacksonville metro area; middle half earns $47,650 to $69,830

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Highest-paying metro areas for conservation scientistss · Highest-paying occupations in Port St. Lucie Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.