Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers salary

SOC 51-9071 · BLS OEWS May 2025

Median

$52,540

per year, nationally

Middle half

$39,520–$69,810

25th to 75th percentile

Employed

22,440

in the U.S.

Growth 2024–34

-5.5%

4,000 openings/yr

What the range looks like

A single median hides most of what a job pays. The bar below is the full national range: the wash spans the 10th to 90th percentile, the solid bar is the middle half, and the tick is the median.

$35,580$87,540

10th: $35,580
25th: $39,520
Median: $52,540
75th: $69,810
90th: $87,540

Getting in

Typical education to enter: High school diploma or equivalent
Related work experience: None
On-the-job training: Long-term on-the-job training

Entry requirements describe what is typical, not mandatory. Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2024–34.

Where jewelers and precious stone and metal workers earn the most

Nominal pay and pay adjusted for local prices rank states differently — a high-wage state with high costs can be worse off in real terms than a middling one. Switch between the two below.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	State	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Connecticut	$69,800	103.6	140	0.58×
2	Virginia	$61,940	101.1	240	0.41×
3	New York	$61,720	107.9	4,300	3.07×
4	California	$60,790	110.7	2,300	0.88×
5	Washington	$60,380	107.0	290	0.56×
6	South Carolina	$60,380	93.7	200	0.59×
7	New Jersey	$59,480	108.8	780	1.27×
8	Vermont	$58,570	98.0	50	1.12×
9	Kansas	$57,730	90.1	110	0.51×
10	Colorado	$57,120	103.1	220	0.54×
11	North Dakota	$57,020	89.0	50	0.76×
12	Michigan	$56,610	96.2	460	0.72×
13	Missouri	$56,140	90.8	490	1.16×
14	Wisconsin	$55,830	94.1	280	0.66×
15	North Carolina	$55,420	94.3	770	1.08×
16	Mississippi	$55,010	87.0	40	0.27×
17	Illinois	$54,990	100.0	610	0.70×
18	Pennsylvania	$54,880	97.6	760	0.87×
19	Minnesota	$54,310	98.6	220	0.53×
20	Florida	$51,470	103.4	1,070	0.74×
21	Louisiana	$51,420	88.2	280	1.00×
22	Massachusetts	$51,060	105.8	830	1.58×
23	Iowa	$50,280	87.8	160	0.70×
24	Alabama	$48,890	88.8	110	0.37×
25	Rhode Island	$48,800	102.3	540	7.52×
26	Hawaii	$48,450	110.0	170	1.86×
27	Tennessee	$48,240	91.9	370	0.79×
28	Ohio	$48,190	92.8	430	0.54×
29	Maine	$48,080	97.0	50	0.53×
30	Georgia	$47,810	96.3	420	0.59×
31	Indiana	$47,620	93.3	380	0.82×
32	Texas	$47,590	97.1	1,810	0.89×
33	Kentucky	$47,090	90.2	320	1.10×
34	Idaho	$47,090	95.5	130	1.05×
35	Nebraska	$46,920	90.1	120	0.81×
36	West Virginia	$46,370	89.5	30	0.31×
37	New Mexico	$46,200	92.2	230	1.84×
38	Maryland	$45,430	105.0	80	0.21×
39	South Dakota	$45,110	88.6	90	1.44×
40	Oregon	$44,510	103.4	530	1.87×
41	New Hampshire	$43,520	104.2	170	1.72×
42	Arizona	$42,240	100.7	440	0.95×
43	Oklahoma	$41,720	87.8	180	0.75×
44	Nevada	$40,510	100.0	330	1.47×
45	Utah	$39,860	98.9	420	1.69×
46	Montana	$37,580	94.6	80	1.12×
47	Arkansas	$35,950	86.9	270	1.42×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. States where jewelers and precious stone and metal workers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

Best paying metro areas for jewelers and precious stone and metal workers

The 40 highest-paying metros with a published estimate. BLS suppresses roughly half of all occupation-by-metro cells, so a metro absent here has no local figure rather than a low one.

The median wage as published, before local prices are taken into account.

#	Metro area	Median	Cost of living	Employed	Concentrationvs. national
1	Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT	$82,200	106.9	50	0.87×
2	San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA	$75,640	115.6	240	0.69×
3	Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA	$73,800	93.6	40	1.08×
4	Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY	$73,650	109.4	50	1.24×
5	Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY	$71,410	99.6	40	0.65×
6	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	$65,370	108.9	110	0.25×
7	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA	$64,740	110.4	70	0.45×
8	San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA	$64,620	111.9	260	1.16×
9	Durham-Chapel Hill, NC	$63,650	97.6	50	1.06×
10	Ann Arbor, MI	$62,970	100.9	40	1.35×
11	Madison, WI	$62,700	97.3	30	0.55×
12	Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA	$62,450	106.7	50	0.34×
13	Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	$62,400	97.3	230	1.18×
14	New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ	$61,360	112.6	4,440	3.24×
15	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	$61,150	113.6	1,190	1.31×
16	Raleigh-Cary, NC	$61,000	98.2	120	1.09×
17	Wilmington, NC	$60,540	96.4	30	1.16×
18	Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	$60,440	101.4	110	0.52×
19	Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	$60,420	111.1	200	0.67×
20	Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO	$59,870	105.8	90	0.40×
21	Syracuse, NY	$58,890	95.7	40	1.00×
22	Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY	$58,760	95.8	90	1.12×
23	Birmingham, AL	$58,550	91.6	30	0.44×
24	Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA	$58,390	110.5	50	1.05×
25	Winston-Salem, NC	$58,310	92.0	40	1.09×
26	Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT	$58,030	102.7	50	0.62×
27	Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	$57,930	100.3	220	0.80×
28	Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	$57,290	102.6	340	0.82×
29	Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	$56,830	100.9	120	0.58×
30	Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA	$56,730	91.7	—	—
31	St. Louis, MO-IL	$56,140	95.1	—	—
32	New Orleans-Metairie, LA	$56,120	92.6	110	1.69×
33	Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC	$56,060	97.9	50	0.47×
34	Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR	$55,790	89.4	60	1.10×
35	Boise City, ID	$55,560	98.4	—	—
36	Kansas City, MO-KS	$55,560	92.5	110	0.72×
37	Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR	$55,340	91.4	50	1.15×
38	Omaha, NE-IA	$55,000	91.9	60	0.89×
39	Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN	$54,990	103.6	460	0.70×
40	Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX	$54,960	98.6	410	0.86×

Cost of living is the BEA regional price parity for all items, where 100 is the national average. Concentration is the BLS location quotient: how much more of the local workforce does this job than the national average, so 2.00× means twice the national share. It is often the reason wages differ — a place that concentrates an occupation has the employers and the competition for it. Metro areas where jewelers and precious stone and metal workers wages are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality are omitted.

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