Maintenance Workers, Machinery · SOC 49-9043

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Maintenance Workers, Machinerys

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for maintenance workers, machinery. 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 198 metro areas

Maintenance Workers, Machinery: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	$157,260	970	1.4
2	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	$91,440	320	2.0
3	Clarksville, TN-KY	$84,500	70	0.7
4	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$83,890	80	0.4
5	Vallejo, CA	$83,540	70	0.5
6	Baton Rouge, LA	$83,170	360	0.9
7	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$81,070	60	0.4
8	Longview-Kelso, WA	$79,890	30	0.8
9	Syracuse, NY	$79,720	320	1.1
10	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$79,410	940	0.9
11	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$79,090	270	0.1
12	Charlottesville, VA	$77,060	40	0.3
13	St. Joseph, MO-KS	$76,530	120	2.3
14	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$75,780	80	0.4
15	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$75,190	140	0.4
16	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$74,940	330	0.2
17	Lexington-Fayette, KY	$74,610	220	0.8
18	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$73,080	220	0.2
19	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$72,750	1,310	0.2
20	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$72,400	130	0.3
21	St. Louis, MO-IL	$71,840	840	0.6
22	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$71,530	160	0.1
23	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$69,940	250	0.1
24	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$68,990	1,170	0.1
25	Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC	$67,490	170	0.4

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Maintenance Workers, Machinery 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.