Floral Designers · SOC 27-1023

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Floral Designerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for floral designers. 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 195 metro areas

Floral Designers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$52,570	60	0.8
2	Salinas, CA	$49,220	40	0.2
3	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$48,740	80	0.2
4	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$48,410	60	0.3
5	Anchorage, AK	$48,310	40	0.2
6	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$48,200	1,330	0.2
7	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$47,910	220	0.2
8	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$47,560	400	0.2
9	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$47,220	670	0.2
10	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$47,140	360	0.2
11	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$47,040	280	0.2
12	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$46,870	470	0.2
13	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$46,520	580	0.2
14	Bend, OR	$46,450	40	0.4
15	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$46,420	420	0.3
16	Boulder, CO	$46,030	70	0.3
17	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$45,970	60	0.5
18	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$45,760	2,310	0.2
19	Naples-Marco Island, FL	$45,720	90	0.5
20	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$45,700	50	0.4
21	Barnstable Town, MA	$45,670	50	0.5
22	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$45,670	70	0.4
23	Salem, OR	$45,120	50	0.3
24	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$44,960	440	0.3
25	Springfield, MA	$44,460	40	0.2

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