Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service · SOC 43-9051

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Services

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service. 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 182 metro areas

Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Springfield, MA	$51,490	60	0.3
2	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$49,520	170	0.7
3	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$49,270	910	0.4
4	Duluth, MN-WI	$48,430	30	0.3
5	Salem, OR	$48,420	70	0.4
6	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$48,120	310	0.4
7	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$48,050	330	0.3
8	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$47,500	820	0.3
9	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$47,430	620	0.3
10	Mankato, MN	$47,050	40	0.7
11	Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT	$47,050	60	0.2
12	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$46,930	370	0.3
13	Worcester, MA	$46,290	80	0.2
14	Reno, NV	$46,230	40	0.1
15	New Haven, CT	$45,710	80	0.3
16	York-Hanover, PA	$45,390	80	0.4
17	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$45,380	70	0.6
18	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$44,840	880	0.4
19	Portland-South Portland, ME	$44,800	100	0.4
20	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$44,760	400	0.7
21	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$44,580	100	0.3
22	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$44,280	270	0.2
23	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$44,220	5,150	0.5
24	St. Cloud, MN	$44,220	80	0.7
25	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$43,590	270	0.2

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service 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.