Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks · SOC 43-4081

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerkss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks. 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 367 metro areas

Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$60,360	730	9.9
2	Urban Honolulu, HI	$59,940	1,360	3.0
3	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$46,500	140	1.1
4	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$45,230	1,360	1.2
5	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$44,670	3,390	1.4
6	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$44,520	2,470	1.2
7	Napa, CA	$43,950	420	5.4
8	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$43,490	8,470	0.9
9	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$40,760	3,990	3.5
10	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$39,990	2,980	1.1
11	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$39,620	7,830	1.2
12	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$39,560	530	2.6
13	Bellingham, WA	$39,140	220	2.4
14	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$39,070	120	1.3
15	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$39,000	2,980	1.9
16	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$38,970	1,550	1.3
17	Portland-South Portland, ME	$38,910	650	2.3
18	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$38,760	310	0.8
19	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$38,650	130	2.5
20	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$38,540	1,610	1.5
21	Boulder, CO	$38,520	190	1.0
22	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$38,520	2,000	1.2
23	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$38,470	150	1.2
24	Salinas, CA	$38,320	850	4.6
25	Vallejo, CA	$38,220	220	1.5

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks 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.