Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners · SOC 37-2012

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Maids and Housekeeping Cleanerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for maids and housekeeping cleaners. 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 392 metro areas

Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Urban Honolulu, HI	$53,850	6,540	14.7
2	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$53,030	2,260	30.6
3	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$48,200	5,620	4.9
4	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$48,140	20,800	18.3
5	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$46,590	12,990	5.5
6	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$44,900	9,030	4.3
7	Napa, CA	$44,260	1,010	13.0
8	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$44,010	40,030	4.2
9	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$43,530	34,440	5.5
10	Vallejo, CA	$43,090	920	6.4
11	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$42,740	1,690	8.2
12	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$42,150	10,400	6.8
13	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	$40,690	2,730	16.2
14	Yuba City, CA	$40,560	300	5.9
15	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$40,080	450	4.8
16	Boulder, CO	$39,950	740	3.9
17	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$39,470	10,920	4.0
18	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$39,200	9,710	5.7
19	Vineland, NJ	$39,200	340	5.4
20	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$39,000	6,070	5.0
21	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$38,920	580	4.5
22	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$38,900	8,890	5.5
23	Salinas, CA	$38,810	1,890	10.1
24	Barnstable Town, MA	$38,750	950	10.1
25	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$38,730	5,900	5.5

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 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.