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Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Editorss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for editors. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (6 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 182 metro areas

Editors: 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	$117,580	560	0.5
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$102,940	2,040	0.9
3	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$102,120	16,600	1.7
4	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$100,050	8,830	1.4
5	New Haven, CT	$98,550	110	0.4
6	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$88,610	340	0.8
7	Waterbury-Shelton, CT	$87,150	230	1.5
8	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$86,870	150	0.6
9	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$86,410	2,480	0.9
10	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$84,800	5,470	1.7
11	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$81,330	110	0.6
12	Boulder, CO	$81,090	220	1.1
13	Salem, OR	$80,650	100	0.5
14	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$80,570	120	0.4
15	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$80,410	220	0.6
16	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$80,380	2,520	0.6
17	Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL	$80,360	50	0.2
18	Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL	$79,940	60	0.3
19	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$79,870	210	0.3
20	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$79,730	670	0.5
21	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$79,660	1,380	0.7
22	Oshkosh-Neenah, WI	$79,350	50	0.5
23	Glens Falls, NY	$78,990	60	1.2
24	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$78,870	710	0.5
25	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$78,800	370	0.3

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