Agricultural Technicians · SOC 19-4012

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Agricultural Technicianss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for agricultural technicians. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Top 25 of 49 metro areas

Agricultural Technicians: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$66,540	30	0.2
2	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$65,300	Not published	Not published
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$65,280	Not published	Not published
4	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	$64,790	120	0.5
5	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$64,750	Not published	Not published
6	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$63,630	500	0.1
7	Champaign-Urbana, IL	$63,080	70	0.7
8	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$62,900	60	0.5
9	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$62,680	460	0.4
10	Iowa City, IA	$59,820	70	0.7
11	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$58,730	140	0.0
12	Napa, CA	$58,340	40	0.5
13	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$54,380	350	0.1
14	Salinas, CA	$53,510	50	0.3
15	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$52,620	80	0.2
16	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$52,600	210	0.1
17	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$52,510	100	0.0
18	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$52,310	160	0.0
19	Fresno, CA	$52,160	150	0.3
20	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$51,840	80	0.3
21	Fargo, ND-MN	$51,770	70	0.5
22	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$51,540	Not published	Not published
23	Kansas City, MO-KS	$51,380	170	0.2
24	Manhattan, KS	$51,270	90	1.8
25	Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC	$50,800	30	0.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Agricultural Technicians 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.