Advertising Sales Agents · SOC 41-3011

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Advertising Sales Agentss

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025U.S. metropolitan areas

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for advertising sales agents. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (8 such areas are excluded here). Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 207 metro areas

Advertising Sales Agents: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$113,250	380	0.3
2	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$105,320	2,770	1.3
3	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$99,010	13,210	1.4
4	Richmond, VA	$95,680	330	0.5
5	Tulsa, OK	$89,820	260	0.6
6	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$84,540	620	0.4
7	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$84,390	1,340	0.6
8	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$83,470	1,100	0.4
9	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$81,750	710	0.9
10	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$80,410	520	1.3
11	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$80,410	190	0.7
12	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$80,360	5,230	0.8
13	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$78,990	70	0.2
14	New Haven, CT	$76,830	70	0.3
15	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$76,570	730	0.6
16	Barnstable Town, MA	$76,350	50	0.5
17	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$75,840	40	0.3
18	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$75,700	40	0.4
19	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$75,590	2,830	0.6
20	Champaign-Urbana, IL	$75,410	60	0.6
21	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$75,140	110	0.5
22	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$75,060	1,110	0.6
23	Salisbury, MD	$74,230	40	0.7
24	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$73,500	190	0.5
25	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$73,280	40	0.3

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Advertising Sales Agents overview.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.