| # | Metro area | Official median wage in average-US dollars | | Postings |
|---|
| 1 | San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | $76,000 | | 5,981 |
| 2 | Boulder, CO | $66,000 | | 302 |
| 3 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | $65,500 | | 4,540 |
| 4 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | $65,500 | | 3,856 |
| 5 | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | $64,000 | | 17,941 |
| 6 | Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH | $61,500 | | 5,962 |
| 7 | Trenton-Princeton, NJ | $61,500 | | 197 |
| 8 | Madison, WI | $59,500 | | 340 |
| 9 | Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO | $59,000 | | 2,988 |
| 10 | Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | $58,500 | | 227 |
| 11 | Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX | $58,000 | | 3,705 |
| 12 | Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA | $57,500 | | 1,291 |
| 13 | Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI | $56,500 | | 2,032 |
| 14 | Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA | $56,000 | | 808 |
| 15 | Portland-South Portland, ME | $56,000 | | 163 |
| 16 | Lansing-East Lansing, MI | $55,500 | | 133 |
| 17 | Syracuse, NY | $55,500 | | 372 |
| 18 | Kansas City, MO-KS | $55,000 | | 1,228 |
| 19 | Ann Arbor, MI | $55,000 | | 241 |
| 20 | Salt Lake City-Murray, UT | $55,000 | | 725 |
| 21 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | $54,500 | | 12,642 |
| 22 | Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA | $54,500 | | 183 |
| 23 | Peoria, IL | $54,500 | | 131 |
| 24 | Omaha, NE-IA | $54,000 | | 629 |
| 25 | Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH | $54,000 | | 340 |
| 26 | Columbus, OH | $54,000 | | 1,389 |
| 27 | Baton Rouge, LA | $53,500 | | 183 |
| 28 | Green Bay, WI | $53,500 | | 130 |
| 29 | Wichita, KS | $53,500 | | 175 |
| 30 | Manchester-Nashua, NH | $53,500 | | 153 |
| 31 | Cleveland, OH | $53,500 | | 858 |
| 32 | Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY | $53,000 | | 238 |
| 33 | Raleigh-Cary, NC | $53,000 | | 856 |
| 34 | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | $53,000 | | 2,652 |
| 35 | Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN | $53,000 | | 5,914 |
| 36 | Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI | $53,000 | | 796 |
| 37 | Rochester, NY | $53,000 | | 294 |
| 38 | Providence-Warwick, RI-MA | $52,500 | | 260 |
| 39 | Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA | $52,500 | | 103 |
| 40 | Toledo, OH | $52,500 | | 245 |
| 41 | Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN | $52,500 | | 815 |
| 42 | St. Louis, MO-IL | $52,500 | | 1,401 |
| 43 | San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA | $52,500 | | 1,452 |
| 44 | Pittsburgh, PA | $52,500 | | 1,128 |
| 45 | Colorado Springs, CO | $52,500 | | 410 |
| 46 | Tulsa, OK | $52,500 | | 400 |
| 47 | Akron, OH | $52,500 | | 143 |
| 48 | Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN | $52,500 | | 326 |
| 49 | Oklahoma City, OK | $52,000 | | 530 |
| 50 | Birmingham, AL | $52,000 | | 308 |
| 51 | Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN | $52,000 | | 143 |
| 52 | Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI | $52,000 | | 1,882 |
| 53 | Springfield, MO | $51,500 | | 166 |
| 54 | Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN | $51,500 | | 1,297 |
| 55 | Fort Wayne, IN | $51,500 | | 177 |
| 56 | Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC | $51,500 | | 1,937 |
| 57 | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | $51,000 | | 3,771 |
| 58 | New Orleans-Metairie, LA | $51,000 | | 159 |
| 59 | Chattanooga, TN-GA | $51,000 | | 142 |
| 60 | Memphis, TN-MS-AR | $51,000 | | 686 |
| 61 | Knoxville, TN | $51,000 | | 223 |
| 62 | Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC | $50,500 | | 610 |
| 63 | Winston-Salem, NC | $50,500 | | 112 |
| 64 | Albuquerque, NM | $50,500 | | 397 |
| 65 | Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA | $50,500 | | 259 |
| 66 | Greensboro-High Point, NC | $50,000 | | 202 |
| 67 | Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX | $50,000 | | 2,480 |
| 68 | Boise City, ID | $50,000 | | 111 |
| 69 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | $50,000 | | 5,058 |
| 70 | Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI | $50,000 | | 572 |
| 71 | Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ | $49,500 | | 2,893 |
| 72 | San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX | $49,500 | | 837 |
| 73 | Savannah, GA | $49,500 | | 142 |
| 74 | Tucson, AZ | $49,500 | | 256 |
| 75 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | $49,000 | | 10,784 |
| 76 | Reno, NV | $49,000 | | 347 |
| 77 | Jacksonville, FL | $49,000 | | 575 |
| 78 | Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ | $49,000 | | 212 |
| 79 | Corpus Christi, TX | $49,000 | | 161 |
| 80 | College Station-Bryan, TX | $49,000 | | 117 |
| 81 | Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT | $49,000 | | 326 |
| 82 | Ogden, UT | $48,500 | | 108 |
| 83 | Charleston-North Charleston, SC | $48,500 | | 434 |
| 84 | Asheville, NC | $48,500 | | 101 |
| 85 | Amarillo, TX | $48,500 | | 122 |
| 86 | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL | $48,500 | | 993 |
| 87 | Jackson, MS | $48,000 | | 121 |
| 88 | Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL | $47,500 | | 156 |
| 89 | Stockton-Lodi, CA | $46,500 | | 110 |
| 90 | Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY | $46,500 | | 129 |
| 91 | Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV | $46,500 | | 958 |
| 92 | Port St. Lucie, FL | $46,500 | | 120 |
| 93 | North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL | $46,500 | | 216 |
| 94 | Lubbock, TX | $46,000 | | 100 |
| 95 | Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL | $46,000 | | 1,137 |
| 96 | Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL | $45,500 | | 256 |
| 97 | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA | $45,500 | | 1,003 |
| 98 | El Paso, TX | $44,000 | | 156 |
| 99 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL | $42,500 | | 2,312 |
