Florida workers' pay near bottom in wage survey as affordability concerns grow

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Florida’s four largest metropolitan areas rank in the bottom quarter of the nation’s major cities in terms of the median wages paid to workers.

This at a time when the cost of living is skyrocketing—especially the cost of housing, which over the past decade has jumped 164 percent in the Sunshine State.

Of the top 50 markets included in the Bureau of Labor…