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Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators · SOC 43-5053

Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators Salary in the San Francisco Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area

Figures describe the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not San Francisco city limits.

Median annual wage$63,650
Median hourly wage$30.60

Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area earned a median of $63,650 per year ($30.60 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $48,880 at the 10th percentile to $76,360 at the 90th. BLS estimates 1,510 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators in the San Francisco metro area earn more than $63,650 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $55,350 and $75,280.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$48,880$55,350$63,650$75,280$76,360
Hourly$23.50$26.61$30.60$36.19$36.71

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

  • San Francisco metro areathis metro area
    $63,650
  • Californiastate (CA)
    $59,490
  • United Statesnational
    $58,470

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

The median here is +7% vs California overall and +9% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$47,170$55,110$63,050$70,990Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $47,170Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $47,440Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $50,770Gainesville, FL — $54,330Huntsville, AL — $54,330Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $54,330Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $54,330Springfield, MA — $54,540Anchorage, AK — $55,350Colorado Springs, CO — $55,350Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $55,350Jacksonville, FL — $55,350Kansas City, MO-KS — $55,350Richmond, VA — $55,350Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $55,660Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $55,690Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $55,870Akron, OH — $56,390Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $56,390Fayetteville, NC — $56,390Johnson City, TN — $56,390Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $56,390Mobile, AL — $56,390Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $56,390Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $56,390St. Louis, MO-IL — $56,390Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $56,430Billings, MT — $56,930Altoona, PA — $57,430Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $57,430Birmingham, AL — $57,430Boise City, ID — $57,430Cedar Rapids, IA — $57,430Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $57,430Grand Junction, CO — $57,430Jackson, MS — $57,430Lafayette, LA — $57,430Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $57,430Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $57,430New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $57,430Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $57,430Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $57,430Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $57,430Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $57,430Syracuse, NY — $57,430Toledo, OH — $57,430Tulsa, OK — $57,430Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $57,620Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $57,660Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX — $57,800Lubbock, TX — $57,800Tucson, AZ — $57,870Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $57,890Midland, TX — $57,950Bangor, ME — $58,300Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $58,300Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $58,300Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $58,300Chattanooga, TN-GA — $58,390Green Bay, WI — $58,390Manchester-Nashua, NH — $58,390Muncie, IN — $58,390Shreveport-Bossier City, LA — $58,390Abilene, TX — $58,470Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $58,470Albuquerque, NM — $58,470Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $58,470Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $58,470Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $58,470Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $58,470Cleveland, OH — $58,470Columbia, SC — $58,470Columbus, OH — $58,470Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $58,470Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $58,470Eau Claire, WI — $58,470El Paso, TX — $58,470Fort Wayne, IN — $58,470Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $58,470Greensboro-High Point, NC — $58,470Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $58,470Knoxville, TN — $58,470Lancaster, PA — $58,470Lexington-Fayette, KY — $58,470Lincoln, NE — $58,470Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $58,470Macon-Bibb County, GA — $58,470Montgomery, AL — $58,470Oklahoma City, OK — $58,470Pittsburgh, PA — $58,470Raleigh-Cary, NC — $58,470Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $58,470Rochester, NY — $58,470San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $58,470Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $58,470Springfield, IL — $58,470Worcester, MA — $58,470Yakima, WA — $58,470Columbia, MO — $58,780Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $58,780South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $58,780Springfield, MO — $58,980Traverse City, MI — $58,980Cheyenne, WY — $59,110Bismarck, ND — $59,130Tallahassee, FL — $59,130Amarillo, TX — $59,490Baton Rouge, LA — $59,490Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $59,490Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $59,490Casper, WY — $59,490Champaign-Urbana, IL — $59,490Charleston, WV — $59,490Corpus Christi, TX — $59,490Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $59,490Eugene-Springfield, OR — $59,490Fargo, ND-MN — $59,490Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $59,490Johnstown, PA — $59,490Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $59,490Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $59,490Missoula, MT — $59,490New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $59,490North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $59,490Omaha, NE-IA — $59,490Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $59,490Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $59,490Redding, CA — $59,490Reno, NV — $59,490Roanoke, VA — $59,490Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $59,490Urban Honolulu, HI — $59,490Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $59,490Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $59,490Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA — $59,490Youngstown-Warren, OH — $59,490Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $59,740St. Cloud, MN — $59,740Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $59,740Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $59,740Portland-South Portland, ME — $59,760Great Falls, MT — $60,010Medford, OR — $60,200Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $60,200San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $60,200San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $60,200Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $60,530Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $60,530Evansville, IN — $60,530Fresno, CA — $60,530Madison, WI — $60,530Mankato, MN — $60,530Peoria, IL — $60,530Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $60,530Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $60,740McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $61,570Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA — $61,570Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $61,710Rocky Mount, NC — $62,610San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $63,650Wichita, KS — $66,750Erie, PA — $69,680Duluth, MN-WI — $70,990

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 San Francisco metro area has the 4th-highest published median for this occupation among the 163 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 California

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • San Francisco metro areathis page
    $63,650
  • Santa Maria metro area
    $61,710
  • Fresno metro area
    $60,530
  • Sacramento metro area
    $60,200
  • San Diego metro area
    $60,200
  • San Jose metro area
    $60,200
  • Los Angeles metro area
    $59,490

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:

Office Clerks, General$52,000Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive$62,110Customer Service Representatives$57,830First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers$88,560Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks$65,530Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants$61,330

Highest-paying metro areas for postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operatorss · Highest-paying occupations in San Francisco 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.