Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers · SOC 35-9011

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helperss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers. 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 382 metro areas

Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$61,230	840	11.4
2	Urban Honolulu, HI	$50,200	2,500	5.6
3	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$45,120	3,630	1.7
4	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$41,710	3,420	3.0
5	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$39,310	10,650	4.5
6	Portland-South Portland, ME	$39,170	740	2.6
7	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$38,210	190	2.0
8	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$38,120	2,160	1.8
9	Barnstable Town, MA	$37,980	560	6.0
10	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$37,700	220	1.7
11	Walla Walla, WA	$37,700	50	1.9
12	Bangor, ME	$37,670	210	3.0
13	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$37,540	5,950	4.4
14	Napa, CA	$37,470	870	11.2
15	Boulder, CO	$37,460	700	3.6
16	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$37,420	80	1.5
17	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$37,320	190	1.5
18	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$37,260	13,800	4.4
19	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$37,040	1,530	5.7
20	Lawton, OK	$37,000	270	6.2
21	Longview-Kelso, WA	$36,980	50	1.2
22	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$36,980	37,600	4.0
23	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$36,970	570	3.4
24	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$36,960	9,850	4.1
25	Kingston, NY	$36,920	410	6.9

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers 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.