Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials · SOC 51-6021

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materialss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for pressers, textile, garment, and related materials. 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 105 metro areas

Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$44,440	110	0.1
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$43,790	600	0.3
3	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$39,510	130	0.1
4	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$39,300	1,420	0.2
5	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$39,170	190	0.1
6	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$38,700	60	0.3
7	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$38,630	340	0.2
8	Modesto, CA	$38,460	30	0.2
9	Salinas, CA	$38,350	90	0.5
10	Stockton-Lodi, CA	$38,300	40	0.2
11	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$38,190	260	0.2
12	Portland-South Portland, ME	$38,020	30	0.1
13	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$38,000	50	0.1
14	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$37,920	1,990	0.2
15	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$37,820	490	0.3
16	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$37,620	310	0.1
17	Fresno, CA	$37,590	110	0.2
18	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$37,170	290	0.1
19	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$36,980	410	0.1
20	Medford, OR	$36,860	50	0.6
21	Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA	$36,510	40	0.2
22	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$36,410	370	0.1
23	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$36,390	210	0.3
24	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$36,290	130	0.1
25	Madison, WI	$36,120	50	0.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials 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.