Medical Assistants · SOC 31-9092

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Medical Assistants

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for medical assistants. 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 389 metro areas

Medical Assistants: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Vallejo, CA	$77,410	1,360	9.5
2	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$64,820	1,550	7.6
3	Napa, CA	$62,050	320	4.1
4	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$61,970	7,410	6.9
5	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$61,940	6,400	5.6
6	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$61,870	210	4.0
7	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$61,500	10,210	4.9
8	Longview-Kelso, WA	$61,480	250	6.0
9	Ponce, PR	$59,990	Not published	Not published
10	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$59,790	14,320	6.0
11	Bellingham, WA	$57,410	510	5.6
12	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$56,240	6,390	5.3
13	Walla Walla, WA	$56,020	140	5.4
14	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$55,700	580	4.4
15	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$55,680	610	6.5
16	Ithaca, NY	$53,760	390	8.1
17	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$52,570	7,390	3.8
18	Fairbanks-College, AK	$52,140	180	5.0
19	Anchorage, AK	$51,930	1,370	7.7
20	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$51,720	2,090	8.2
21	Lewiston-Auburn, ME	$51,460	380	7.9
22	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$51,200	410	5.6
23	Kennewick-Richland, WA	$50,820	850	6.5
24	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$50,740	10,750	4.0
25	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$50,680	2,020	6.2

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Medical Assistants 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.