Orderlies · SOC 31-1132

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Orderliess

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for orderlies. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (2 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 122 metro areas

Orderlies: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$69,870	480	0.2
2	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$65,790	300	0.3
3	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$63,780	40	0.2
4	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$62,380	370	0.3
5	Bakersfield-Delano, CA	$50,110	80	0.2
6	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$50,040	50	0.2
7	Modesto, CA	$49,890	80	0.4
8	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$49,760	1,890	0.3
9	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$49,410	330	0.2
10	Rochester, MN	$48,290	70	0.6
11	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$47,510	260	0.1
12	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$47,440	620	0.4
13	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$46,560	100	0.0
14	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$45,850	4,970	0.5
15	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$45,110	290	0.2
16	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$44,920	280	0.2
17	Utica-Rome, NY	$44,890	50	0.4
18	Boulder, CO	$44,660	40	0.2
19	Reading, PA	$44,510	100	0.6
20	Rochester, NY	$44,260	310	0.6
21	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	$43,930	300	0.8
22	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$43,570	1,740	0.6
23	Colorado Springs, CO	$42,920	80	0.2
24	Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI	$42,840	360	0.4
25	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$42,170	270	1.1

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