Riggers · SOC 49-9096

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Riggerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for riggers. 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 72 metro areas

Riggers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Fargo, ND-MN	$169,480	50	0.3
2	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$103,030	620	0.1
3	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$97,850	270	0.3
4	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$96,880	1,250	0.2
5	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$91,430	110	0.1
6	Urban Honolulu, HI	$87,570	170	0.4
7	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$87,120	140	0.1
8	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$85,300	570	6.1
9	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$82,370	140	0.1
10	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$82,130	770	0.7
11	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$81,860	100	0.0
12	St. Louis, MO-IL	$81,350	80	0.1
13	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$79,810	160	0.1
14	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$78,840	160	0.1
15	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$77,940	Not published	Not published
16	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$75,960	210	0.1
17	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$75,860	50	0.2
18	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$75,670	400	0.1
19	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$75,640	80	0.1
20	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$75,130	130	0.1
21	Jackson, MS	$74,380	30	0.1
22	Boise City, ID	$72,850	40	0.1
23	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$72,660	140	0.1
24	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$72,030	340	0.2
25	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$69,030	280	0.1

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