Metro Areas by Highest Average Wage, 2007 (state, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago)

[18Montclair]

Released by the US Department of Commerce April 25, 2009

Top 20
1 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Fairfield, CA $81,158
2 Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT $78,578
3 New York-Northern NJ-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA $64,731
4 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA $64,287
5 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV $60,385
6 Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH $58,891
7 Trenton-Ewing, NJ $56,340
8 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT $53,771
9 Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX $52,924
10 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA $52,807
11 Boulder, CO $51,104
12 Durham-Chapel Hill, NC $50,912
13 Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI $50,618
14 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA $50,520
15 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD $50,049
16 Denver-Aurora-Broomfield, CO $49,644
17 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX $49,497
18 Manchester-Nashua, NH $49,324
19 Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI $48,925
20 Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI $48,722

For the rest...
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[18Montclair]

States by Average Wage, 2007
1 New York $58,481
2 Connecticut $56,966
3 Massachusetts $54,155
4 New Jersey $52,968
5 California $50,182
6 Maryland $48,113
7 Illinois $47,021
8 Delaware $46,318
9 Washington $45,975
10 Virginia $45,910
11 Colorado $44,790
12 Alaska $44,222
13 Texas $44,103
14 Minnesota $43,460
15 New Hampshire $43,085
16 Nevada $42,825
17 Michigan $42,727
18 Pennsylvania $42,214
19 Georgia $41,574
20 Arizona $41,223
21 Rhode Island $40,986
22 Hawaii $40,519
23 Florida $39,505
24 Ohio $39,206
25 Wyoming $38,901

The rest can be found here...
BEA : CA34 - Average wage per job*1/

[tmac9wr]

No surprises by which metro areas are the most wealthy...the only state I thought would be ranked higher was Alaska...I thought Alaska was on average one of the richest states.