Etchers and Engravers · SOC 51-9194

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Etchers and Engraverss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for etchers and engravers. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (1 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 43 metro areas

Etchers and Engravers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$64,630	Not published	Not published
2	Columbus, OH	$63,860	Not published	Not published
3	Cleveland, OH	$62,580	Not published	Not published
4	Green Bay, WI	$60,720	Not published	Not published
5	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$58,020	430	0.0
6	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$57,770	90	0.1
7	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$56,470	130	0.1
8	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$52,980	90	0.0
9	Springfield, MA	$51,000	40	0.2
10	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$50,810	30	0.0
11	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$50,710	230	0.1
12	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$49,800	100	0.1
13	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$48,800	80	0.1
14	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$48,190	80	0.0
15	Memphis, TN-MS-AR	$47,880	50	0.1
16	Rochester, NY	$47,380	40	0.1
17	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$46,970	40	0.0
18	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$46,280	110	0.1
19	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$46,180	40	0.1
20	Madison, WI	$46,170	70	0.2
21	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$45,520	500	0.1
22	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$45,250	110	0.1
23	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$45,050	60	0.1
24	Pittsburgh, PA	$44,110	40	0.0
25	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$43,880	240	0.1

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