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Urban and Regional Planners · SOC 19-3051

Urban and Regional Planners Salary in the Boston Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area

Figures describe the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Boston city limits.

Median annual wage$103,460
Median hourly wage$49.74

Urban and Regional Planners in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area earned a median of $103,460 per year ($49.74 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $78,330 at the 10th percentile to $136,760 at the 90th. BLS estimates 1,100 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Urban and Regional Planners in the Boston metro area earn more than $103,460 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $84,380 and $123,350.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$78,330$84,380$103,460$123,350$136,760
Hourly$37.66$40.57$49.74$59.30$65.75

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

  • Boston metro areathis metro area
    $103,460
  • Massachusettsstate (MA)
    $99,780
  • United Statesnational
    $89,320

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

The median here is +4% vs Massachusetts overall and +16% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$49,940$79,747$109,553$139,360San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $49,940Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH — $54,650Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR — $56,490Tallahassee, FL — $56,810Punta Gorda, FL — $57,680Athens-Clarke County, GA — $59,370McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX — $60,010Gulfport-Biloxi, MS — $60,280Montgomery, AL — $61,050Charleston, WV — $61,380Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $61,560Flint, MI — $62,400Chattanooga, TN-GA — $62,780Bloomington, IN — $63,770Mobile, AL — $64,060Jackson, MS — $64,270Roanoke, VA — $64,440Wildwood-The Villages, FL — $64,520Lincoln, NE — $65,560Las Cruces, NM — $65,580Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL — $66,020Savannah, GA — $66,220Sioux Falls, SD-MN — $66,260Dover, DE — $66,550Oshkosh-Neenah, WI — $67,350Fayetteville, NC — $67,940Wilmington, NC — $68,050Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL — $69,610Topeka, KS — $69,830South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI — $69,950Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $70,760Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ — $71,130Columbia, SC — $71,910Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL — $72,360Cedar Rapids, IA — $73,840Jacksonville, FL — $74,020Saginaw, MI — $74,450Spartanburg, SC — $74,640Charleston-North Charleston, SC — $74,840Springfield, MO — $75,020Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC — $75,100Fort Wayne, IN — $75,240Wichita, KS — $75,290Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC — $75,350Green Bay, WI — $76,370Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC — $76,480Santa Fe, NM — $76,730North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL — $76,910Eau Claire, WI — $77,090Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI — $77,130Richmond, VA — $77,340Winston-Salem, NC — $77,400Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT — $77,420Pittsfield, MA — $77,820Asheville, NC — $77,950Wausau, WI — $78,100Syracuse, NY — $78,240Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL — $78,260Flagstaff, AZ — $78,490El Paso, TX — $78,730Columbus, OH — $78,750Charlottesville, VA — $78,780Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL — $78,900Tucson, AZ — $79,190Traverse City, MI — $79,270Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL — $79,370Ann Arbor, MI — $79,620Pittsburgh, PA — $79,690Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN — $79,760Bismarck, ND — $79,920Tulsa, OK — $79,950Lancaster, PA — $80,100Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $80,140Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $80,160Albuquerque, NM — $80,250St. Louis, MO-IL — $80,270Fargo, ND-MN — $80,360Boise City, ID — $80,390San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $80,620Amherst Town-Northampton, MA — $80,660New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $80,710Lexington-Fayette, KY — $81,020Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $81,240Cleveland, OH — $81,290Coeur d'Alene, ID — $81,650Port St. Lucie, FL — $81,680Appleton, WI — $81,770Champaign-Urbana, IL — $81,840Portland-South Portland, ME — $81,930Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ — $82,030Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $82,080Kalamazoo-Portage, MI — $82,100Springfield, MA — $82,100Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $82,270Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $82,330Manchester-Nashua, NH — $82,340Akron, OH — $82,370Longview-Kelso, WA — $82,620Helena, MT — $82,690Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $82,760Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $82,830Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL — $82,970Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ — $82,980Bozeman, MT — $83,100Gainesville, FL — $83,130Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $83,170Omaha, NE-IA — $83,270Bangor, ME — $83,300Bakersfield-Delano, CA — $83,410Naples-Marco Island, FL — $83,450Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $83,520Reading, PA — $83,620Birmingham, AL — $83,740Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $83,750Greensboro-High Point, NC — $83,880Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $84,000Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $84,160Duluth, MN-WI — $84,280Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $84,350Kansas City, MO-KS — $84,520Raleigh-Cary, NC — $84,810Utica-Rome, NY — $84,840Medford, OR — $85,020Kennewick-Richland, WA — $85,140Durham-Chapel Hill, NC — $85,290Ogden, UT — $85,590Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $85,920Yuma, AZ — $85,950Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $85,980Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $86,510Watertown-Fort Drum, NY — $86,670Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH — $87,190Binghamton, NY — $87,340Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $87,880Urban Honolulu, HI — $87,990Rockford, IL — $88,160Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $88,190Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL — $88,300Worcester, MA — $88,300Lexington Park, MD — $88,570Yakima, WA — $88,790Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY — $88,860Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $89,170Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL — $89,770Oklahoma City, OK — $89,980Burlington-South Burlington, VT — $91,580Rochester, NY — $92,550Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC — $94,670Rochester, MN — $94,680Yuba City, CA — $95,160Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA — $95,640Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA — $95,640Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA — $95,640Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA — $95,640Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA — $96,580Colorado Springs, CO — $96,780Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $97,160Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $97,600New Haven, CT — $98,220Fort Collins-Loveland, CO — $98,660Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $98,840New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $99,150Fairbanks-College, AK — $99,630Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $99,800Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT — $99,830Bellingham, WA — $100,050Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $101,230Huntsville, AL — $101,500Boulder, CO — $101,710Barnstable Town, MA — $101,940Anchorage, AK — $102,110Visalia, CA — $102,200Eugene-Springfield, OR — $102,380Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT — $102,490Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $103,070Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $103,460Madison, WI — $103,940Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $103,970Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $104,770Greeley, CO — $105,200Fresno, CA — $105,330Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA — $105,440Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA — $105,500Bend, OR — $105,720Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $105,890Reno, NV — $105,900Redding, CA — $106,920Stockton-Lodi, CA — $106,920Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $107,470San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA — $107,710Salem, OR — $107,960Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $108,040Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA — $108,760Trenton-Princeton, NJ — $109,150San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA — $109,920Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA — $110,520Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA — $111,380Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA — $112,270Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA — $123,090Salinas, CA — $125,300Napa, CA — $128,530Vallejo, CA — $129,790San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA — $136,250San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA — $139,360

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 Boston metro area has the 29th-highest published median for this occupation among the 204 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 Massachusetts

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

  • Boston metro areathis page
    $103,460
  • Barnstable Town metro area
    $101,940
  • Worcester metro area
    $88,300
  • Springfield metro area
    $82,100
  • Amherst Town metro area
    $80,660
  • Pittsfield metro area
    $77,820

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:

Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists$129,500Biochemists and Biophysicists$131,550Biological Technicians$61,610Chemists$127,290Occupational Health and Safety Specialists$105,960Biological Scientists, All Other$110,410

Highest-paying metro areas for urban and regional plannerss · Highest-paying occupations in Boston 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.