Credit Counselors · SOC 13-2071

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Credit Counselorss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for credit counselors. 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 118 metro areas

Credit Counselors: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$82,570	210	0.1
2	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$80,680	120	0.1
3	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$76,930	110	0.1
4	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$67,120	200	0.1
5	Fresno, CA	$66,660	60	0.1
6	Boulder, CO	$65,540	40	0.2
7	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$65,210	830	0.1
8	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$64,750	190	0.1
9	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$64,380	350	0.2
10	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$64,080	380	0.1
11	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$64,080	620	0.2
12	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$63,170	1,610	0.2
13	Ithaca, NY	$62,750	40	0.8
14	Omaha, NE-IA	$62,520	190	0.4
15	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$62,500	40	0.2
16	Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA	$62,340	40	0.1
17	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$62,240	50	0.2
18	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$62,080	110	0.1
19	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$61,980	150	0.1
20	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$61,930	440	0.1
21	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$60,730	120	0.3
22	Worcester, MA	$60,680	60	0.2
23	Eugene-Springfield, OR	$60,600	30	0.2
24	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	$60,210	90	0.2
25	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$60,110	50	0.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Credit Counselors 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.