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Program Administrator

Lead staff and operations — set priorities, allocate resources, and oversee program delivery.

57 employees hold this title in Department Environmental Protection. Median total compensation for the role is $92,858, above the department median of $52,530.

Employees
57
Total payroll
$5.3M
Role median
$92,858
Agency median
$52,530
Comparison
Above

What the records show

Role pay distribution

Pay distribution for this role

$78,000$113,533+

Hover a bar for its range; click to filter the list below.

How total compensation varies among the 57 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.

Compared with the local labor market

Program Administrator pay vs. Florida

Across all employers in Florida, the median wage for Instructional Coordinators — about 18,030 people — is $60,790. Department Environmental Protection pays a median base salary of $92,347 for this role, 52% above that figureabout the 86th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Where Department Environmental Protection sits in the local pay range

10th
25th
Median
75th
90th
$44,900
$49,230
$60,790
$77,550
$98,440
Department Environmental Protection median · $92,347

The bar is the range of annual wages for Instructional Coordinators across every employer in Florida, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Department Environmental Protection’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.

And across the country

Nationwide, the median wage for Instructional Coordinators — about 227,760 people — is $77,440. Department Environmental Protection’s median base salary is 19% above that national figure, about the 67th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.

10th
25th
Median
75th
90th
$47,980
$60,780
$77,440
$98,820
$121,670
Department Environmental Protection median · $92,347

Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Florida range relative to the national one.

Computed over the 56 of 57 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.

Median total compensation for this role at Department Environmental Protection is $92,858, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.

Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.

Compare departments

This role across Florida

Program Administrator is held in 11 Florida departments. In Department Environmental Protection, the median of $92,858 ranks #3 of 11.

Highest-paying departments for this role

Median total compensation for the Program Administrator role in other Floridadepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.

Compare jurisdictions

Program Administrator beyond Florida

This role is reported in 5 jurisdictions. In Florida, the median of $91,404 ranks #2 of 5. See Program Administrator across all of Florida

Highest-paying jurisdictions for this role

Utah
$84,872 · 253
Georgia
$76,960 · 55
Missouri
$47,062 · 5

Median total compensation for comparable Program Administratorroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.

Record list

Employees with this title

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Candi Donaldson

Program Administrator/Department Environmental Protection

2026 total comp
$98,756
Sub-department
Regulatory District Offices
Base pay
$98,756
Overtime
$0
Other pay
$0
Benefits
$0
Total compensation
$98,756
Hire date
2017-05-18
Employment type
Salaried
Middle name
F

Source-specific fields

Class Code
8841
Position Number
010094

At Department Environmental Protection, Candi Donaldson serves as a Program Administrator within Regulatory District Offices. They have served since 2017 (about 9 years), working salaried. Their 2026 pay totaled $98,756.