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Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shops

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop. 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 381 metro areas

Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Urban Honolulu, HI	$47,110	1,740	3.9
2	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$45,240	490	6.6
3	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$43,410	3,390	2.8
4	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$42,400	1,860	1.6
5	Grants Pass, OR	$40,890	100	3.1
6	Bend, OR	$40,090	480	4.4
7	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$39,810	4,090	1.7
8	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$38,430	6,010	2.9
9	Boulder, CO	$38,220	580	3.0
10	Napa, CA	$38,200	490	6.3
11	Eugene-Springfield, OR	$38,120	460	2.9
12	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$37,890	300	3.2
13	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$37,720	650	3.2
14	Vallejo, CA	$37,520	280	1.9
15	Portland-South Portland, ME	$37,100	830	2.9
16	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$36,920	15,340	2.4
17	Salem, OR	$36,780	410	2.2
18	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$36,500	18,530	2.0
19	Longview-Kelso, WA	$36,390	60	1.5
20	Salinas, CA	$36,380	610	3.3
21	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$36,360	9,270	3.0
22	Colorado Springs, CO	$36,350	1,130	3.6
23	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$36,340	5,320	3.3
24	Albany, OR	$36,320	90	2.0
25	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$36,140	4,720	3.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop 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.