Travel Agents · SOC 41-3041

Highest-Paying Metro Areas for Travel Agentss

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

Metro areas ranked by published median annual wage for travel agents. Areas where BLS suppressed the median are not ranked (3 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 124 metro areas

Travel Agents: metro areas with the highest published median annual wages, May 2025
#	Metro area	Median annual	Employment	Per 1,000 jobs
1	Bozeman, MT	$67,440	60	0.8
2	Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV	$63,400	Not published	Not published
3	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$62,870	320	0.8
4	Bend, OR	$61,570	40	0.4
5	New Haven, CT	$61,330	50	0.2
6	Salt Lake City-Murray, UT	$60,580	290	0.3
7	Burlington-South Burlington, VT	$60,560	50	0.5
8	Reading, PA	$60,470	80	0.5
9	Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX	$60,310	270	0.2
10	Winston-Salem, NC	$60,110	30	0.1
11	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$59,860	220	0.3
12	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	$59,820	260	0.2
13	Waterbury-Shelton, CT	$59,370	40	0.2
14	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$59,140	120	0.2
15	Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH	$59,090	60	0.2
16	Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	$58,890	1,490	0.6
17	Trenton-Princeton, NJ	$58,880	40	0.2
18	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$58,860	40	0.1
19	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$58,760	290	0.3
20	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$58,690	700	0.4
21	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$58,430	3,610	0.4
22	Providence-Warwick, RI-MA	$58,140	270	0.4
23	Boulder, CO	$58,050	110	0.6
24	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	$58,030	370	0.3
25	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$58,000	630	0.3

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