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Editors · SOC 27-3041

Editors Salary in the Seattle Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro area

Figures describe the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Seattle city limits.

Median annual wage$79,660
Median hourly wage$38.30

Editors in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA metro area earned a median of $79,660 per year ($38.30 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $50,320 at the 10th percentile to $132,170 at the 90th. BLS estimates 1,380 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Editors in the Seattle metro area earn more than $79,660 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $56,900 and $101,150.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$50,320$56,900$79,660$101,150$132,170
Hourly$24.19$27.36$38.30$48.63$63.54

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Seattle metro areathis metro area
    $79,660
  • Washingtonstate (WA)
    $77,850
  • United Statesnational
    $77,920

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is +2% vs Washington overall and +2% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$29,040$58,553$88,067$117,580Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $29,040Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN — $39,930San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $42,390Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA — $45,700Tulsa, OK — $46,850Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA — $47,300St. Cloud, MN — $47,400Bangor, ME — $48,020Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $48,410Jackson, MS — $49,650Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $50,180Portland-South Portland, ME — $50,180Corpus Christi, TX — $50,730Gainesville, GA — $50,770Fort Wayne, IN — $50,810Omaha, NE-IA — $51,030Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $51,720Lincoln, NE — $52,000Springfield, MO — $52,040Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $52,600Lubbock, TX — $52,670Chattanooga, TN-GA — $54,000Eau Claire, WI — $54,090Columbia, MO — $54,250Boise City, ID — $54,540Urban Honolulu, HI — $54,690Oklahoma City, OK — $55,370El Paso, TX — $55,450Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $56,420Wichita, KS — $56,420Lafayette, LA — $57,070Traverse City, MI — $57,200Killeen-Temple, TX — $57,510Jefferson City, MO — $57,570Medford, OR — $57,910Peoria, IL — $58,000Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $58,050Roanoke, VA — $58,100Erie, PA — $58,240Eugene-Springfield, OR — $58,460Springfield, MA — $58,460Youngstown-Warren, OH — $58,890Rockford, IL — $59,380Akron, OH — $59,410Tucson, AZ — $59,420Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $59,570Knoxville, TN — $59,630Midland, TX — $60,080Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $60,110San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $60,230Springfield, IL — $60,510Fargo, ND-MN — $60,600Barnstable Town, MA — $60,680College Station-Bryan, TX — $60,780Lexington-Fayette, KY — $60,830Dubuque, IA — $60,980New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $61,260Pittsfield, MA — $61,410Savannah, GA — $61,810Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $61,860Cedar Rapids, IA — $61,880Bend, OR — $61,890Champaign-Urbana, IL — $62,030Manchester-Nashua, NH — $62,200Bellingham, WA — $62,290Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $62,310Bozeman, MT — $62,380Anchorage, AK — $62,400Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $62,490Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $62,610Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV — $62,670Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $62,710Pittsburgh, PA — $62,710Lancaster, PA — $62,720Waco, TX — $62,890Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $62,930Winston-Salem, NC — $63,130Jacksonville, FL — $63,270Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $63,370Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $63,430Iowa City, IA — $63,440Topeka, KS — $63,560Salinas, CA — $63,680Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $63,720Santa Fe, NM — $64,200Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $64,250Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $64,390Tallahassee, FL — $64,590Ann Arbor, MI — $64,670Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $64,970Reading, PA — $65,130Kansas City, MO-KS — $65,180Albuquerque, NM — $65,190Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $65,390Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $65,400Lawrence, KS — $65,460Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $65,740Asheville, NC — $66,210Baton Rouge, LA — $66,340Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC — $66,470Greensboro-High Point, NC — $66,540Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $66,560Helena, MT — $66,770Madison, WI — $66,920Chico, CA — $67,390Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $67,400Columbia, SC — $67,530Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $67,810Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $68,260Missoula, MT — $68,300Gainesville, FL — $68,730Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $68,830Syracuse, NY — $69,190Toledo, OH — $69,270Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $69,940St. Louis, MO-IL — $69,990Richmond, VA — $70,380Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $70,560Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $71,340Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $71,520Fresno, CA — $72,300Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT — $72,340Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $72,510Birmingham, AL — $72,650Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $73,030Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $73,300Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $73,330Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA — $73,470Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $73,610North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $73,610San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $73,770Cleveland, OH — $73,850Worcester, MA — $73,950Reno, NV — $74,470Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $74,530Green Bay, WI — $74,650Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $75,240Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $75,430Montgomery, AL — $75,520Colorado Springs, CO — $75,590Charlottesville, VA — $75,800Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $76,180Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $76,270Canton-Massillon, OH — $76,350Raleigh-Cary, NC — $76,360Rochester, NY — $76,620Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $76,720Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $77,130Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $77,570Ogden, UT — $77,570Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $77,680Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $77,730Columbus, OH — $77,810Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $77,890Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $78,670Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $78,690Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $78,700Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $78,800San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $78,870Glens Falls, NY — $78,990Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $79,350Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $79,660Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $79,730Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $79,870Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $79,940Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $80,360Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $80,380Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $80,410Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $80,570Salem, OR — $80,650Boulder, CO — $81,090Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $81,330Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $84,800Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $86,410Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $86,870Waterbury-Shelton, CT — $87,150Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $88,610New Haven, CT — $98,550Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $100,050New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $102,120San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $102,940San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $117,580

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Seattle metro area has the 21st-highest published median for this occupation among the 182 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Washington

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for editors, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Seattle metro areathis page
    $79,660
  • Bremerton metro area
    $73,470
  • Olympia metro area
    $68,830
  • Spokane metro area
    $67,810
  • Bellingham metro area
    $62,290

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Coaches and Scouts$49,640Public Relations Specialists$96,000Graphic Designers$76,720Producers and Directors$86,680Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers$50,580Technical Writers$107,580

Highest-paying metro areas for editorss · Highest-paying occupations in Seattle Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

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.