Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks · SOC 43-3031

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerkss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks. 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 393 metro areas

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks: 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	$66,130	7,590	6.7
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$65,530	18,100	7.6
3	New Haven, CT	$62,890	2,900	10.3
4	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$61,960	1,120	11.4
5	Napa, CA	$61,710	700	9.0
6	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$61,390	3,710	9.2
7	Vallejo, CA	$61,180	1,040	7.2
8	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$61,140	2,040	10.0
9	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$60,960	21,170	7.8
10	Barnstable Town, MA	$60,680	990	10.5
11	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$60,640	77,010	8.1
12	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$60,460	17,860	8.6
13	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$60,170	1,900	9.5
14	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$59,470	4,660	7.8
15	Fairbanks-College, AK	$59,320	470	12.8
16	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$59,290	18,550	5.9
17	Salinas, CA	$59,180	1,270	6.8
18	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$59,020	560	10.7
19	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$58,590	780	8.3
20	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$58,590	53,910	8.6
21	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$58,580	12,830	8.3
22	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$58,570	1,070	8.8
23	Rochester, MN	$58,350	790	6.4
24	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$58,020	1,470	6.1
25	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$57,790	16,510	8.5

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks 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.