Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan · SOC 43-4111

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loans

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for interviewers, except eligibility and loan. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (3 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 272 metro areas

Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan: 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	$70,840	1,110	1.0
2	Vallejo, CA	$68,830	120	0.9
3	Barnstable Town, MA	$66,320	80	0.9
4	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$63,690	100	1.0
5	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$63,020	2,540	1.1
6	Modesto, CA	$62,100	220	1.1
7	Merced, CA	$61,650	80	1.1
8	Redding, CA	$61,390	120	1.7
9	Rochester, MN	$61,340	200	1.6
10	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$60,760	380	1.3
11	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$60,610	160	0.8
12	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$59,580	250	0.8
13	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$59,420	1,160	0.6
14	Napa, CA	$57,620	50	0.6
15	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$57,330	9,460	1.0
16	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$55,780	8,500	1.4
17	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$55,670	120	0.9
18	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$54,950	350	1.8
19	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$52,880	830	0.7
20	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$52,790	360	1.1
21	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$52,330	1,570	1.0
22	Ann Arbor, MI	$51,640	670	3.1
23	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$51,620	1,380	1.3
24	Salinas, CA	$51,510	140	0.8
25	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$51,390	520	2.6

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan 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.