Want to Make More Money? These Are the 10 U.S. Cities Where the Average Worker's Pay Has Increased the Most Since 2019.Between 2019 and 2021, salaried workers — across all earnings levels — did see their incomes increase.
ByAmanda Breen•
Recentinflationhas left many Americans wishing they had more in the bank this year.
In fact, per a survey fromBankrate, 55% of them say their earnings aren't keeping up with the highestinflation在几十年。但是一些受薪工人fortunate enough to see theirincomes increaseover the past couple of years:ADPresearchers recently surveyed residents of the 53 biggest metro areas (those with more than one million residents) in the U.S. to see where the largest jumps took place,CNBCreported.
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ADP's Geography of Recent U.S. Wage Growth revealed that between 2019 and 2021, salaried workers — across all earnings levels — did see their incomes increase. Median monthly earnings rose by 6.77%, high-end monthly earnings by 8.02% and low-end pay by 10.36%.
What's more, the study found that high-end pay saw the greatest increases in expensivecoastal cities, whilelow-cost citiessaw outsized salary gains among low earners.
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Here are the 10 metro areas with the most significant increases for median-income earners, noting their percent gain and average monthly salaries in 2019 and 2021, per CNBC.
1. Austin-Round Rock, Texas
Percent gain: 9.40%
2019 monthly salary: $7,063
2021 monthly salary: $7,727
2. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-Pennsylvania
Percent gain: 9.51%
2019 monthly salary: $6,763
2021 monthly salary: $7,406
3. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California
Percent gain: 9.71%
2019 monthly salary: $6,987
2021 monthly salary: $7,666
4. Grand Rapids-Wyoming, Michigan
Percent gain: 9.97%
2019 monthly salary: $5,632
2021 monthly salary: $6,193
5. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Percent gain: 10.00%
2019 monthly salary: $6,275
2021 monthly salary: $6,902
6. New Orleans-Metairie, Louisiana
Percent gain: 10.57%
2019 monthly salary: $5,045
2021 monthly salary: $5,579
7. Providence-Warwick, Rhode Island-Massachusetts
Percent gain: 11.12%
2019 monthly salary: $6,156
2021 monthly salary: $6,841
8. Sacramento-Roseville-Arden-Arcade, California
Percent gain: 11.22%
2019 monthly salary: $6,600
2021 monthly salary: $7,340
9. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, North Carolina-South Carolina
Percent gain: 12.36%
2019 monthly salary: $6,081
2021 monthly salary: $6,832
10. Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, New York
Percent gain: 14.01%
2019 monthly salary: $5,276
2021 monthly salary: $6,015
