Best jobs in North Port, FL
The best-scoring occupations in the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL metro area, ranked on local pay plus national growth and opportunity.
Wages here are local to North Port, FL (OEWS May 2025). Projected growth and openings are national BLS projections — not a local forecast.
How this ranking is scored
score = .40·pay + .30·growth + .20·employment + .10·openings
Each factor is scaled to the strongest occupation on this list, then weighted and summed. Weights differ by list type. Full methodology.
Wages — OEWS May 2025 (metro)
Growth & openings — EP 2024–34 (national)
#
Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
P25–P75
Growth
Employed
Open/yr
Score
Showing top 25 of 779 scored occupations — show all 779show top 25
#
Occupation
MEDIAN, LOCAL
Growth
Score
155
$57,780
+3.1%
26
204
$63,240
+0.3%
22
207
$46,380
-1.6%
22
288
$60,080
+3.7%
19
328
$51,170
+6.3%
17
341
$81,880
+1.9%
17
446
Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical Assemblers, Except Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers
$44,390
+4.6%
14
480
$51,450
+2.3%
14
505
—†
-19.6%
13†
567
—†
-13.7%
12†
582
—†
+2.0%
11†
677
—†
-1.1%
9†
725
$45,190
-12.0%
8
735
$39,170
-3.8%
7
750
$38,230
-12.1%
7
754
$41,450
-4.3%
7
Live jobs in North Port, FL
Growth and openings are national (BLS EP 2024–34) — state-level projections are not in this data pull, so the same national figure is used for every place and we say so rather than guess. † local wage not published for this cell — the score uses the state value and the pay column shows a dash.