October 2007

San Francisco area named highest-paying metro area

 Average pay in the San Francisco metropolitan area was 19 percent above the national average in 2006, the highest among the 78 metropolitan areas studied by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Other high-paying metropolitan areas included New York, Salinas, Calif., Boston, and Hartford, Conn.

By contrast, pay was lowest in the Brownsville, Texas, metropolitan area, where workers earned an average of 78 cents for every dollar earned by workers nationwide.

Other low-paying metropolitan areas included Corpus Christi, Texas, Great Falls, Mont., Johnstown, Pa., and Springfield, Mo.

For the report, the bureau calculated the pay — wages, salaries, commissions, and production bonuses — for a given metropolitan area relative to the nation as a whole. The calculation controls for differences among areas in occupational composition, establishment and occupational characteristics, and the fact that data was collected for areas at different times during the year.

Source: Business & Legal Reports, http://compensation.blr.com

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