The best place to be a lawyer and make some money in Tampa Bay is in the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota metro area. Lawyers in that market are bringing in an mean average of $140,340 a year, according to statistics released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics . Those are the second-highest average lawyer salaries in the state.
Lawyers in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro are getting by with an average of only $108,900, below the national average of $130,490. Then again, the Tampa metro has six times as many employed lawyers as the metro south of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater metro has 7,430 lawyers to North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota's 1,200.
Also making a living in six figures, the 700 lawyers in the Lakeland-Winter Haven metro bring home an average of $130,800.
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