Aircraft Service Attendants · SOC 53-6032

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Aircraft Service Attendantss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for aircraft service attendants. 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 74 metro areas

Aircraft Service Attendants: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Bozeman, MT	$57,780	30	0.5
2	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	$56,620	440	0.7
3	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$53,890	100	0.1
4	Urban Honolulu, HI	$51,930	150	0.3
5	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$50,570	210	0.1
6	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$50,520	580	0.3
7	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$50,140	150	0.1
8	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$47,370	60	0.1
9	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$47,200	1,060	0.2
10	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$47,110	380	0.2
11	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$46,940	320	0.2
12	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$46,900	160	0.2
13	Anchorage, AK	$46,760	270	1.5
14	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$46,630	180	0.1
15	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$46,350	700	0.4
16	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	$46,290	410	0.9
17	Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH	$45,720	60	0.2
18	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$45,260	350	0.1
19	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$45,250	1,910	0.2
20	Albuquerque, NM	$45,200	150	0.4
21	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$44,950	260	0.1
22	Cleveland, OH	$44,600	210	0.2
23	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$44,530	Not published	Not published
24	Wichita, KS	$44,480	100	0.3
25	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$44,350	70	0.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Aircraft Service Attendants 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.