Loan Interviewers and Clerks · SOC 43-4131

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Loan Interviewers and Clerkss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for loan interviewers and clerks. 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 342 metro areas

Loan Interviewers and Clerks: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Salinas, CA	$65,160	60	0.3
2	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$62,530	820	0.7
3	Vallejo, CA	$62,160	100	0.7
4	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$61,630	110	0.5
5	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$61,350	60	0.6
6	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$61,330	1,700	0.8
7	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$61,060	1,690	0.7
8	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$61,010	250	0.6
9	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$60,680	140	0.7
10	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$60,510	1,790	1.3
11	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$60,260	150	0.4
12	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$60,250	1,530	0.6
13	Barnstable Town, MA	$60,230	70	0.7
14	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$60,190	4,710	0.5
15	Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	$60,110	1,330	1.9
16	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$60,020	1,180	1.0
17	Greeley, CO	$60,010	50	0.5
18	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$59,930	810	0.6
19	Bellingham, WA	$59,760	90	1.0
20	Jacksonville, FL	$59,710	1,320	1.7
21	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$59,420	390	0.7
22	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$59,140	1,530	0.9
23	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$59,070	1,910	0.6
24	Fort Collins-Loveland, CO	$58,890	100	0.6
25	Wilmington, NC	$58,860	210	1.1

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