Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other · SOC 43-9199

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Others

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for office and administrative support workers, all other. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (8 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 272 metro areas

Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$72,830	150	1.6
2	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$67,490	60	0.1
3	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$66,710	1,340	3.3
4	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$65,060	40	0.1
5	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	$64,440	1,140	5.3
6	Napa, CA	$62,630	70	0.9
7	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$61,790	1,360	1.2
8	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$61,780	2,910	1.2
9	Boise City, ID	$61,450	130	0.3
10	Niles, MI	$61,410	80	1.4
11	Ann Arbor, MI	$61,160	140	0.7
12	Bismarck, ND	$60,260	310	4.3
13	York-Hanover, PA	$59,970	180	1.0
14	Fairbanks-College, AK	$59,860	40	1.2
15	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$59,270	180	0.9
16	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$58,470	80	0.1
17	Kalamazoo-Portage, MI	$57,680	50	0.4
18	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$57,510	120	1.0
19	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$57,160	5,910	1.9
20	Hanford-Corcoran, CA	$57,100	50	1.0
21	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$56,780	2,720	1.8
22	Vallejo, CA	$56,430	160	1.1
23	Salem, OR	$56,240	270	1.4
24	Anchorage, AK	$56,160	280	1.6
25	Jefferson City, MO	$55,740	440	5.5

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other 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.