Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers · SOC 49-2021

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for radio, cellular, and tower equipment installers and repairers. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (1 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 51 metro areas

Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ	$105,240	70	0.0
2	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$100,890	Not published	Not published
3	Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	$97,970	300	0.1
4	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$96,610	370	0.0
5	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$95,620	130	0.1
6	Albuquerque, NM	$86,580	50	0.1
7	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$82,380	100	0.1
8	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$81,270	150	0.0
9	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$80,880	40	0.0
10	Pittsburgh, PA	$80,430	50	0.0
11	San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	$79,340	50	0.0
12	Anchorage, AK	$76,920	40	0.2
13	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$76,070	310	0.1
14	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$75,780	210	0.1
15	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$75,330	50	0.0
16	Lansing-East Lansing, MI	$74,570	40	0.2
17	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$70,880	70	0.0
18	Columbus, OH	$67,980	100	0.1
19	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$67,790	280	0.4
20	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$67,150	70	0.1
21	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$67,130	Not published	Not published
22	Richmond, VA	$67,090	50	0.1
23	Urban Honolulu, HI	$65,970	60	0.1
24	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$65,910	150	0.1
25	Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN	$65,810	60	0.1

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers 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.