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Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Telemarketerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for telemarketers. 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 90 metro areas

Telemarketers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Waterbury-Shelton, CT	$58,900	Not published	Not published
2	Springfield, IL	$50,390	30	0.3
3	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$49,700	270	0.2
4	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$49,240	420	0.3
5	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$47,930	620	0.4
6	Rochester, NY	$47,840	350	0.7
7	Colorado Springs, CO	$47,670	100	0.3
8	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$45,710	160	0.1
9	Boulder, CO	$45,340	70	0.3
10	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$44,900	80	0.2
11	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$44,770	260	0.2
12	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$44,650	Not published	Not published
13	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$44,160	300	0.2
14	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$43,740	130	0.1
15	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$43,620	60	0.1
16	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$42,660	320	0.1
17	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$42,450	1,550	0.2
18	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$41,400	1,220	0.1
19	Boise City, ID	$41,350	180	0.5
20	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	$40,040	1,210	0.4
21	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$39,970	340	0.2
22	Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	$39,850	580	0.3
23	Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC	$39,750	460	1.1
24	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$39,670	220	0.1
25	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$39,470	Not published	Not published

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