Financial Managers · SOC 11-3031

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Financial Managers

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for financial managers. 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 390 metro areas

Financial Managers: 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	$225,280	7,970	7.0
2	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$221,010	89,960	9.5
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$216,150	17,040	7.2
4	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$211,000	7,210	17.8
5	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$209,780	21,650	8.0
6	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$193,400	7,490	4.7
7	Boulder, CO	$192,970	700	3.6
8	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$185,550	8,500	4.1
9	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$185,270	26,430	8.4
10	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$184,800	2,460	10.2
11	Springfield, MA	$175,950	920	4.6
12	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$175,890	450	2.7
13	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$175,310	34,480	5.5
14	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$174,210	7,350	4.8
15	Richmond, VA	$173,140	3,480	5.3
16	Midland, MI	$173,080	310	8.2
17	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$172,760	9,290	6.8
18	Colorado Springs, CO	$172,680	710	2.2
19	Greeley, CO	$172,530	270	2.3
20	Midland, TX	$172,520	800	6.5
21	Lawrence, KS	$171,290	170	3.3
22	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$171,240	15,660	5.4
23	Worcester, MA	$170,940	1,560	4.5
24	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$170,310	7,540	12.6
25	Charlottesville, VA	$170,250	450	3.9

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