Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars · SOC 29-9021

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrarss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for health information technologists and medical registrars. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (2 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 134 metro areas

Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars: 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	$126,670	260	0.2
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$111,480	280	0.1
3	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$101,500	190	0.2
4	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$100,740	120	0.3
5	Madison, WI	$98,530	270	0.7
6	Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL	$93,440	130	0.5
7	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$92,750	150	0.2
8	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$91,910	540	0.3
9	Duluth, MN-WI	$91,440	90	0.7
10	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$88,630	190	0.1
11	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$87,530	1,200	0.2
12	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$87,170	110	0.2
13	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$86,940	350	0.3
14	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$86,790	60	0.2
15	Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	$86,310	Not published	Not published
16	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$86,160	30	0.1
17	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$85,350	260	0.2
18	Lubbock, TX	$84,540	60	0.4
19	Worcester, MA	$84,430	60	0.2
20	North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL	$83,880	70	0.2
21	Columbus, OH	$83,580	730	0.7
22	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$83,130	640	0.2
23	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$82,780	690	0.3
24	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$82,440	50	0.3
25	Fargo, ND-MN	$81,490	30	0.2

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars 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.