Property Appraisers and Assessors · SOC 13-2020

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Property Appraisers and Assessorss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for property appraisers and assessors. 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 241 metro areas

Property Appraisers and Assessors: 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	$105,580	650	0.3
2	Vallejo, CA	$103,510	30	0.2
3	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$102,840	70	0.6
4	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$99,850	440	0.3
5	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$99,800	700	0.4
6	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$98,950	40	0.2
7	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$98,020	590	0.3
8	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$96,220	370	0.3
9	Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ	$96,010	40	0.2
10	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$95,730	40	0.2
11	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$94,230	740	0.3
12	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$92,370	190	0.5
13	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$91,600	2,240	0.4
14	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$91,280	80	0.4
15	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$91,230	70	0.3
16	Montgomery, AL	$90,800	30	0.2
17	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$89,690	190	0.5
18	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$89,280	180	0.3
19	Cedar Rapids, IA	$89,270	40	0.3
20	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$87,160	280	0.4
21	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$86,260	550	0.3
22	Redding, CA	$85,240	40	0.5
23	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$84,490	40	0.3
24	Barnstable Town, MA	$84,360	40	0.4
25	New Haven, CT	$83,330	90	0.3

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Property Appraisers and Assessors 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.