Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other · SOC 51-6099

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Others

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other. 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 41 metro areas

Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Oklahoma City, OK	$62,650	50	0.1
2	Portland-South Portland, ME	$61,070	90	0.3
3	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	$51,880	Not published	Not published
4	Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA	$50,440	40	0.2
5	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$49,170	50	0.1
6	Charleston-North Charleston, SC	$47,720	170	0.4
7	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$47,170	60	0.0
8	Columbia, SC	$46,370	130	0.3
9	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$44,910	360	0.3
10	Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN	$44,690	40	0.0
11	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$44,500	140	0.1
12	Chattanooga, TN-GA	$43,830	150	0.6
13	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$43,420	140	0.0
14	Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC	$41,820	90	0.2
15	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$38,830	610	0.1
16	Knoxville, TN	$38,670	40	0.1
17	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$37,830	70	0.1
18	Winston-Salem, NC	$37,700	120	0.4
19	Spartanburg, SC	$37,550	130	0.8
20	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$37,410	100	0.0
21	Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC	$37,370	230	1.5
22	Fayetteville, NC	$36,840	30	0.3
23	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	$36,630	40	0.0
24	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$36,540	3,050	0.5
25	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$36,540	130	0.2

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other 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.