Community Health Workers · SOC 21-1094

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Community Health Workerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for community health workers. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (2 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 205 metro areas

Community Health Workers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Carson City, NV	$81,600	100	3.2
2	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$80,290	70	0.6
3	Eau Claire, WI	$78,090	40	0.5
4	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$72,710	2,090	0.9
5	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$69,630	430	0.4
6	Boulder, CO	$65,780	70	0.4
7	Columbus, OH	$64,810	610	0.5
8	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$64,720	100	0.5
9	Visalia, CA	$63,960	100	0.6
10	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$62,400	820	0.5
11	Traverse City, MI	$62,160	50	0.8
12	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$61,610	390	0.9
13	Lincoln, NE	$61,310	40	0.2
14	Vallejo, CA	$61,130	60	0.4
15	Modesto, CA	$60,800	70	0.3
16	New Haven, CT	$60,690	60	0.2
17	Yuba City, CA	$60,610	40	0.8
18	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$60,090	50	1.0
19	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$59,470	80	0.8
20	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$59,340	4,790	0.5
21	Ann Arbor, MI	$59,210	90	0.4
22	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$59,200	410	0.5
23	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$58,790	1,600	0.5
24	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$58,760	60	0.3
25	Fort Smith, AR-OK	$58,690	40	0.5

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Community Health Workers 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.