Court, Municipal, and License Clerks · SOC 43-4031

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Court, Municipal, and License Clerkss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for court, municipal, and license 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 366 metro areas

Court, Municipal, and License 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	$83,490	550	0.5
2	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$77,860	1,240	0.6
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$77,750	1,820	0.8
4	Madison, WI	$75,990	170	0.4
5	Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA	$73,760	50	0.9
6	Modesto, CA	$65,640	90	0.4
7	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$64,610	2,390	0.4
8	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$64,550	1,600	0.9
9	Salinas, CA	$63,830	100	0.5
10	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$63,720	280	1.4
11	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$63,600	150	1.6
12	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$63,270	110	0.9
13	Barnstable Town, MA	$63,250	170	1.8
14	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$63,240	150	0.5
15	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$63,240	1,740	1.6
16	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$63,240	230	0.8
17	Vallejo, CA	$63,240	170	1.2
18	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$63,160	60	0.5
19	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$63,120	250	0.6
20	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$62,850	2,580	1.0
21	Salem, OR	$62,830	230	1.2
22	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$62,730	120	2.3
23	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$62,730	110	0.9
24	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$62,380	90	0.4
25	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$62,350	950	0.8

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Court, Municipal, and License 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.