Home Appliance Repairers · SOC 49-9031

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Home Appliance Repairerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for home appliance repairers. 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 129 metro areas

Home Appliance Repairers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$86,940	40	0.2
2	Barnstable Town, MA	$85,260	40	0.4
3	Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI	$81,740	60	0.7
4	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$81,000	320	0.4
5	Anchorage, AK	$75,650	60	0.3
6	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$74,360	140	0.2
7	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$69,610	380	0.1
8	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$65,190	2,560	0.3
9	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$64,310	30	0.2
10	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$64,220	250	0.1
11	Naples-Marco Island, FL	$64,070	50	0.3
12	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$63,840	330	0.1
13	Waterbury-Shelton, CT	$62,410	40	0.3
14	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$62,400	160	0.1
15	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$62,370	120	0.3
16	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$61,870	530	0.3
17	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$61,590	110	0.1
18	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$61,390	310	0.2
19	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$61,150	960	0.2
20	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	$60,940	70	0.2
21	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$60,040	70	0.2
22	North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL	$59,870	110	0.3
23	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$59,770	200	0.2
24	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$59,750	1,430	0.3
25	New Haven, CT	$59,570	30	0.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Home Appliance Repairers 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.