Transportation Security Screeners · SOC 33-9093

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Transportation Security Screenerss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for transportation security screeners. 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 144 metro areas

Transportation Security Screeners: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ	$79,210	50	0.1
2	Salinas, CA	$78,940	40	0.2
3	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$78,940	350	0.1
4	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$78,940	320	0.3
5	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$76,130	1,250	0.5
6	Manchester-Nashua, NH	$76,130	80	0.4
7	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$74,400	50	0.2
8	Flint, MI	$74,130	50	0.4
9	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$73,610	2,670	0.4
10	Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	$73,610	500	0.3
11	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$73,210	50	0.2
12	Kahului-Wailuku, HI	$72,510	160	2.1
13	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$72,340	4,610	0.5
14	Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	$72,240	550	0.4
15	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$72,130	690	0.4
16	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$71,530	990	0.6
17	Portland-South Portland, ME	$71,510	80	0.3
18	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$71,510	170	0.2
19	San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA	$71,240	50	0.4
20	Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA	$71,240	70	0.4
21	Bellingham, WA	$70,970	40	0.5
22	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$70,570	1,780	0.4
23	Akron, OH	$70,180	50	0.2
24	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$69,990	370	0.3
25	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$69,910	1,360	0.4

Full state and metro tables, the national distribution, and the pay map are on the Transportation Security Screeners 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.