Medical Equipment Preparers · SOC 31-9093

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Medical Equipment Preparerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for medical equipment preparers. 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 245 metro areas

Medical Equipment Preparers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Vallejo, CA	$82,610	140	1.0
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$82,140	1,070	0.5
3	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$81,370	50	0.6
4	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$81,090	540	0.5
5	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$79,490	680	0.6
6	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$75,800	60	0.5
7	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$67,830	630	0.4
8	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$61,870	910	0.4
9	Redding, CA	$61,840	40	0.6
10	Barnstable Town, MA	$61,160	40	0.4
11	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$61,060	100	0.4
12	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$60,980	150	0.7
13	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$60,840	1,310	0.5
14	Salinas, CA	$60,490	70	0.4
15	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$60,380	100	0.3
16	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$59,560	800	0.5
17	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$59,520	3,010	0.5
18	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$58,870	5,270	0.6
19	Worcester, MA	$57,760	200	0.6
20	Boulder, CO	$54,110	90	0.5
21	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$53,420	920	0.5
22	Idaho Falls, ID	$51,730	80	1.0
23	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$51,660	140	0.6
24	Colorado Springs, CO	$51,540	180	0.6
25	Urban Honolulu, HI	$51,520	160	0.4

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