Crossing Guards and Flaggers · SOC 33-9091

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Crossing Guards and Flaggerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for crossing guards and flaggers. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (9 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 178 metro areas

Crossing Guards and Flaggers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$73,990	140	0.4
2	Salem, OR	$62,990	250	1.3
3	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$62,880	40	0.8
4	Columbus, OH	$61,690	960	0.9
5	Vallejo, CA	$60,270	290	2.0
6	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$58,810	460	0.4
7	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$58,060	290	0.9
8	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$57,190	110	0.1
9	Bellingham, WA	$56,450	60	0.6
10	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$55,700	2,500	0.4
11	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$55,360	840	0.5
12	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$54,580	1,150	0.5
13	Gainesville, FL	$52,620	80	0.5
14	Altoona, PA	$52,030	140	2.4
15	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$51,930	630	0.6
16	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$51,400	80	0.6
17	Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA	$50,650	80	1.5
18	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$50,020	1,780	0.9
19	Kingston, NY	$49,930	40	0.7
20	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$48,100	80	0.7
21	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$47,570	1,620	1.3
22	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$47,130	160	0.5
23	Fresno, CA	$46,190	220	0.5
24	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$45,980	130	1.0
25	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$45,760	340	1.3

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Crossing Guards and Flaggers 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.