Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping · SOC 43-4161

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeepings

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping. 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 287 metro areas

Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping: 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	$67,590	560	0.5
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$66,550	1,300	0.5
3	Vallejo, CA	$61,870	90	0.6
4	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$61,600	60	0.6
5	Napa, CA	$61,390	40	0.5
6	Rochester, MN	$60,540	200	1.6
7	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$60,420	1,480	0.7
8	Lexington Park, MD	$59,970	40	0.5
9	Corvallis, OR	$59,880	40	1.0
10	Boulder, CO	$59,690	80	0.4
11	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$59,120	1,610	0.5
12	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$58,610	640	0.6
13	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$58,140	190	0.6
14	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$57,820	90	0.5
15	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$57,600	3,890	0.6
16	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$57,530	660	0.5
17	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$57,440	1,150	0.4
18	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$57,220	30	0.6
19	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$57,200	240	0.6
20	Grand Junction, CO	$57,160	40	0.5
21	Winchester, VA-WV	$57,160	50	0.8
22	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$57,130	60	0.5
23	New Haven, CT	$57,020	140	0.5
24	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$56,850	7,640	0.8
25	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$56,670	2,350	1.2

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping 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.