Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers · SOC 49-2097

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for audiovisual equipment installers and repairers. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (1 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 85 metro areas

Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$79,040	Not published	Not published
2	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$78,580	240	0.2
3	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$74,890	Not published	Not published
4	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$73,890	Not published	Not published
5	Waterbury-Shelton, CT	$73,870	70	0.5
6	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$71,990	760	0.1
7	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$70,720	260	0.1
8	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$68,920	Not published	Not published
9	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$65,610	30	0.1
10	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$65,150	100	0.1
11	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$64,490	430	0.1
12	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$63,720	210	0.1
13	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$63,270	Not published	Not published
14	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$63,140	260	0.1
15	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$63,130	470	0.1
16	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$63,110	70	0.1
17	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$62,420	180	0.1
18	Rochester, NY	$60,520	50	0.1
19	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$60,490	Not published	Not published
20	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$59,560	Not published	Not published
21	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$58,660	470	0.2
22	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$57,930	Not published	Not published
23	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$57,760	350	0.2
24	Colorado Springs, CO	$57,710	70	0.2
25	Coeur d'Alene, ID	$57,530	30	0.4

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers 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.