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BLS · ACS · ZHVI · DOL
Rank US metros by cost-of-living-adjusted salary — raw BLS OES wage normalised against local household income and ZHVI housing pressure. Each page also shows H-1B activity to signal employer demand.
Updated 2026-08-22 - combines BLS, ACS, Zillow, and DOL signals into one ranking graph.
Featured occupations
12
High-value occupations
6
Ranking basis
CoL-adjusted
Why best-cities helps with Google, LLMs, and product-quality navigation.
Source chain
BLS wages are adjusted with ACS and Zillow signals, then bridged to salary and H-1B context.
Freshness
The ranking rebuilds from source data and stays readable enough to reuse across the salary graph.
Intent
This hub converts a broad occupation query into the exact city and state pages users can act on next.
Software Developers
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Registered Nurses
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Operations Managers
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Financial Managers
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Data Scientists
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Physicians
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Lawyers
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Accountants & Auditors
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Mechanical Engineers
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Elementary Teachers
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Project Managers
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Marketing Analysts
Best cities by CoL-adjusted wage →
Jump from the national ranking into a state-level best-cities view, where salary, city, and Money & Place signals are aligned around local context.
Alabama
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Alaska
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Arizona
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Arkansas
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California
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Colorado
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Connecticut
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Delaware
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Florida
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Georgia
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Hawaii
State best-cities hub
Idaho
State best-cities hub
Illinois
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Indiana
State best-cities hub
Iowa
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Kansas
State best-cities hub
Kentucky
State best-cities hub
Louisiana
State best-cities hub
Maine
State best-cities hub
Maryland
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Massachusetts
State best-cities hub
Michigan
State best-cities hub
Minnesota
State best-cities hub
Mississippi
State best-cities hub
Missouri
State best-cities hub
Montana
State best-cities hub
Nebraska
State best-cities hub
Nevada
State best-cities hub
New Hampshire
State best-cities hub
New Jersey
State best-cities hub
New Mexico
State best-cities hub
New York
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North Carolina
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North Dakota
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Ohio
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Oklahoma
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Oregon
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Pennsylvania
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Rhode Island
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South Carolina
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South Dakota
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Tennessee
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Texas
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Utah
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Vermont
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Virginia
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Washington
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West Virginia
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Wisconsin
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Wyoming
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District of Columbia
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Sources: BLS OES May 2024, Census ACS 5-year, Zillow Research ZHVI, DOL LCA H-1B disclosures.
It compares BLS occupation wages across US metros after normalizing for local purchasing power, housing pressure, and nearby H-1B activity.
A city ranks higher when the wage goes further locally after adjusting for cost of living and housing pressure, not just when the raw salary is high.
The page focuses on occupations with strong national wages and meaningful employment counts so the ranking stays useful for search and decision making.