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Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Sailors and Marine Oilerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for sailors and marine oilers. 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 56 metro areas

Sailors and Marine Oilers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$79,870	200	2.1
2	Urban Honolulu, HI	$76,330	250	0.6
3	Jacksonville, FL	$75,530	700	0.9
4	Duluth, MN-WI	$74,920	50	0.4
5	Anchorage, AK	$73,320	80	0.4
6	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$68,780	410	0.2
7	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$68,740	110	2.1
8	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$68,740	1,080	0.5
9	Brownsville-Harlingen, TX	$65,940	70	0.4
10	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$63,900	160	0.1
11	Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN	$62,650	560	0.8
12	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	$62,610	620	0.6
13	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$62,550	1,720	0.2
14	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$61,630	150	0.1
15	Barnstable Town, MA	$61,510	40	0.4
16	Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT	$61,120	80	0.7
17	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$59,100	160	0.4
18	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$57,870	1,150	0.4
19	St. Louis, MO-IL	$57,450	150	0.1
20	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$57,320	30	0.1
21	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$55,610	3,470	1.1
22	Cleveland, OH	$53,520	50	0.0
23	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	$52,950	280	0.2
24	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$52,110	120	0.0
25	Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX	$52,000	200	1.2

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Sailors and Marine Oilers 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.