Project Management Specialists salary in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

The figures

The median Project Management Specialists in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro area earns $96,390 a year ($46.34 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Project Management Specialists in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL earn between $75,830 and $127,020 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $59,190 or less and the top 10 percent earn $154,660 or more. BLS estimates 11,690 Project Management Specialists jobs in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL area — 8.284 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 1.21 (above the national concentration). That is 1.1% of all Project Management Specialists employment in the United States (1,066,670 jobs nationally). By employment, Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL is the #20 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Project Management Specialists. In aggregate, Project Management Specialists in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL earn about $1.19 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $80,277.44 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Project Management Specialists is about $0.94 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 3.5% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL stands #25 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Project Management Specialists. By employment, Project Management Specialists is the #23 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL. Placed against the national distribution for Project Management Specialists, the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL median of $96,390 falls between the national 25th percentile ($78,440) and the national median ($102,320). Across all occupations, the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL median is $46,630 a year — Project Management Specialists pay is 106.7% above the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Project Management Specialists in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL earn 2.6 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($154,660 against $59,190). The middle half spans $51,190 — from $75,830 to $127,020. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($74.35) is 2.61 times the 10th ($28.46). In the upper half of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $127,020 takes home $98,084.34 and the 90th percentile wage of $154,660 takes home $116,976.38 — $18,892.04 more net for $27,640 more gross. Against the median take-home of $76,640.40, the top decile keeps 1.53 times as much. The mean wage of $101,560 sits 5.4% above the median: higher-paid Project Management Specialists pull the average up in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL. Among the 30 covered occupations in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL, Project Management Specialists ranks #3 by median pay. In the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL wage ladder of covered occupations, Project Management Specialists sits between General and Operations Managers at $100,440 and Registered Nurses at $83,550. Project Management Specialists accounts for 0.8% of all employment in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL metro area. The average covered metro employs 21,846 Project Management Specialists; Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL employs 0.5 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Florida

Single filer, no dependents, no pre-tax contributions, paid biweekly, a full year of W-2 wages in Florida; city and local taxes are not included:

At the median, $76,640.40 of the $96,390 gross is kept ($2,947.71 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 20.49%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 15.97% at the 10th percentile, 18.01% at the 25th percentile, 22.78% at the 75th percentile, 24.37% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $35,907.98 on a gross rise of $51,190.

The same engine at the other published points of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $49,739.00 a year at the 10th percentile to $116,976.38 at the 90th — a spread of $67,237.38 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL median wage of $46,630 takes home $39,647.18 a year ($1,524.89 per paycheck, deduction rate 14.97%). The Project Management Specialists median take-home of $76,640.40 sits $36,993.22 (above that area-wide figure.

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Take-home pay for $96,390 in Florida

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Project Management Specialists earns $102,320 a year ($49.19 an hour). The Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL median of $96,390 is $5,930 (5.8%) below the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $101,560 a year in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL against $110,740 nationally, a gap of $9,180 (8.3%).

Set against the whole local market, the Project Management Specialists 90th percentile of $154,660 is 145% of the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL all-occupations 90th percentile ($106,490), and its 10th percentile of $59,190 is 198% of the area-wide 10th ($29,820).

Sources and method

Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates (released May 15, 2026), retrieved October 27, 2026 — bls.gov/oes. OEWS figures are survey estimates for May 2025, not job offers. Take-home pay is computed by this site's paycheck engine with 2026 federal and state rules; the method, and what the engine does not model, is documented in the paycheck methodology guide. Estimates only — not tax advice.