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Best cities for flooring installers

Rank every metro by what matters to you: pay, buying power, rent and job market

Best cities for flooring installers, balanced Our calculation

With balanced priorities, St. Louis, MO ranks first for flooring installers: $71,730 median pay worth $75,435 after local prices. We ranked the 70 metros with enough published flooring installer data on pay, buying power, rent burden, job market size and unemployment.

  1. 1
    St. LouisMISSOURI · MO · $71,730 median · $75,435 buying power · rent 18% of pay · 410 jobs
    86
  2. 2
    PittsburghPENNSYLVANIA · PA · $80,970 median · $85,528 buying power · rent 17% of pay · 170 jobs
    84
  3. 3
    AnchorageALASKA · AK · $92,860 median · $88,086 buying power · rent 14% of pay · 60 jobs
    81
  4. 4
    BostonMASSACHUSETTS · MA · $98,290 median · $90,786 buying power · rent 28% of pay · 740 jobs
    81
  5. 5
    Green BayWISCONSIN · WI · $60,470 median · $64,961 buying power · rent 20% of pay · 100 jobs
    77
  6. 6
    Sioux FallsSOUTH DAKOTA · SD · $59,500 median · $65,651 buying power · rent 21% of pay · 90 jobs
    77
  7. 7
    HonoluluHAWAII · HI · $77,280 median · $69,646 buying power · rent 30% of pay · 150 jobs
    77
  8. 8
    PhiladelphiaPENNSYLVANIA · PA · $73,280 median · $71,455 buying power · rent 26% of pay · 350 jobs
    77
  9. 9
    ToledoOHIO · OH · $72,850 median · $79,657 buying power · rent 14% of pay · 160 jobs
    77
  10. 10
    San JoseCALIFORNIA · CA · $105,280 median · $95,342 buying power · rent 31% of pay · 340 jobs
    76
  11. 11
    ColumbusOHIO · OH · $65,560 median · $68,672 buying power · rent 24% of pay · 170 jobs
    74
  12. 12
    Des MoinesIOWA · IA · $63,200 median · $68,920 buying power · rent 21% of pay · 50 jobs
    74
  13. 13
    MinneapolisMINNESOTA · MN · $63,170 median · $60,264 buying power · rent 27% of pay · 420 jobs
    73
  14. 14
    ClevelandOHIO · OH · $58,950 median · $62,764 buying power · rent 21% of pay · 210 jobs
    72
  15. 15
    IndianapolisINDIANA · IN · $59,410 median · $62,082 buying power · rent 27% of pay · 240 jobs
    71

Default weights: buying power 4, pay 3, rent 3, job market 2, unemployment 2. Change them below to re-rank.

Top 5 by each factor Government data

Highest pay

  1. San Jose, CA: $105,280
  2. Boston, MA: $98,290
  3. Anchorage, AK: $92,860
  4. Pittsburgh, PA: $80,970
  5. Honolulu, HI: $77,280

Most buying power

  1. San Jose, CA: $95,342
  2. Boston, MA: $90,786
  3. Anchorage, AK: $88,086
  4. Pittsburgh, PA: $85,528
  5. Toledo, OH: $79,657

Lowest rent burden

  1. Toledo, OH: 14% of pay for a 1-bed
  2. Anchorage, AK: 14% of pay for a 1-bed
  3. Cedar Rapids, IA: 16% of pay for a 1-bed
  4. Pittsburgh, PA: 17% of pay for a 1-bed
  5. St. Louis, MO: 18% of pay for a 1-bed

Most jobs

  1. Los Angeles, CA: 1,350 employed
  2. New York, NY: 1,180 employed
  3. Chicago, IL: 1,010 employed
  4. Boston, MA: 740 employed
  5. San Francisco, CA: 600 employed

See every metro on the flooring installer overview.

What matters to you? Our calculation

Pick a quick start or set your own weights. Each metro gets a percentile for every factor (compared with all metros for this trade), weighted by your sliders. Nothing is estimated: a metro needs at least 4 of the 5 figures published to be ranked, and results show when one is missing.

Pay and jobs: BLS OEWS May 2025. Buying power: BEA 2024. Rent: HUD FY2027. How we calculate

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