Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other · SOC 39-9099

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Personal Care and Service Workers, All Others

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for personal care and service workers, all other. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (3 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 136 metro areas

Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$53,580	Not published	Not published
2	Salinas, CA	$50,910	50	0.3
3	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$48,900	Not published	Not published
4	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$48,320	30	0.3
5	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$47,320	70	0.2
6	Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC	$46,990	50	0.6
7	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$46,930	170	0.1
8	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$46,430	220	0.2
9	Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC	$44,930	60	0.1
10	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$44,680	140	1.9
11	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$43,810	410	0.2
12	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$43,160	1,600	0.3
13	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$43,160	80	0.4
14	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$42,540	210	0.0
15	Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA	$42,110	50	0.5
16	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$42,000	1,860	0.2
17	Albany, OR	$41,600	930	19.7
18	Bend, OR	$41,600	870	8.0
19	Corvallis, OR	$41,600	300	7.8
20	Eugene-Springfield, OR	$41,600	2,350	14.9
21	Grants Pass, OR	$41,600	510	16.8
22	Medford, OR	$41,600	940	10.6
23	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$41,600	11,120	9.2
24	Salem, OR	$41,600	2,870	15.2
25	Shreveport-Bossier City, LA	$41,330	100	0.6

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Personal Care and Service 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.