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Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Tellerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for tellers. 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 391 metro areas

Tellers: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$50,090	1,030	0.9
2	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$49,880	3,730	1.8
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$49,370	2,810	1.2
4	Napa, CA	$49,260	100	1.3
5	Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA	$48,700	530	4.1
6	Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA	$48,310	310	3.3
7	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$48,060	330	1.6
8	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$47,690	1,450	1.3
9	Bellingham, WA	$47,630	420	4.6
10	Vallejo, CA	$47,600	330	2.3
11	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$47,550	2,110	1.4
12	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$47,520	4,820	1.8
13	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$47,490	440	1.4
14	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$47,320	200	1.6
15	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$47,230	920	2.3
16	Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA	$47,230	150	2.8
17	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$47,230	15,820	1.7
18	Boulder, CO	$47,220	310	1.6
19	Longview-Kelso, WA	$47,220	170	4.2
20	Salinas, CA	$47,200	220	1.2
21	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$46,980	350	1.7
22	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	$46,940	2,100	1.5
23	Barnstable Town, MA	$46,910	260	2.8
24	Naples-Marco Island, FL	$46,890	260	1.5
25	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$46,880	4,060	1.3

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