Bill and Account Collectors · SOC 43-3011

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Bill and Account Collectorss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for bill and account collectors. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (3 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 302 metro areas

Bill and Account Collectors: 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	$77,360	660	0.6
2	Napa, CA	$77,160	80	1.0
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$72,430	1,450	0.6
4	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$64,970	80	0.6
5	Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI	$62,460	60	0.7
6	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$61,640	110	0.5
7	Kenosha, WI	$60,690	80	1.0
8	Anchorage, AK	$60,430	200	1.1
9	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$60,390	50	0.5
10	New Haven, CT	$60,330	160	0.6
11	Visalia, CA	$60,310	150	0.9
12	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$59,800	2,260	0.8
13	Vallejo, CA	$59,740	80	0.6
14	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$59,690	30	0.3
15	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$59,330	350	0.6
16	Rochester, MN	$58,370	70	0.6
17	Fresno, CA	$58,330	230	0.5
18	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$58,110	1,960	0.6
19	Modesto, CA	$57,700	110	0.6
20	Worcester, MA	$57,570	170	0.5
21	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$57,440	6,650	1.1
22	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$57,120	110	0.5
23	Salinas, CA	$56,800	50	0.3
24	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$55,820	220	0.5
25	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$55,550	30	0.2

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Bill and Account Collectors 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.