Dancers · SOC 27-2031

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Dancerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median hourly wage for dancers. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (5 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 21 of 21 metro areas

Dancers: metro areas with the highest published median hourly wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median hourly	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$38.75	370	0.3
2	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$35.31	90	0.0
3	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$34.82	50	0.0
4	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$33.17	50	0.0
5	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$31.35	120	0.1
6	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$30.43	400	0.2
7	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$27.62	80	1.0
8	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$27.19	90	0.1
9	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$26.32	980	0.1
10	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$26.29	120	0.1
11	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$26.00	140	0.1
12	Urban Honolulu, HI	$24.68	340	0.8
13	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$24.46	110	0.1
14	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$23.53	50	0.0
15	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$22.75	170	0.1
16	San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR	$20.24	Not published	Not published
17	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$20.10	660	0.1
18	Kansas City, MO-KS	$20.00	150	0.1
19	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$16.75	150	0.1
20	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$16.15	40	0.1
21	Rochester, NY	$15.94	50	0.1

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