BLS wage survey · May 2025 · 48 states and D.C.

How much do real estate agents make in each state?

Official pay figures for real estate sales agents and brokers in every state, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics wage survey. Median, 25th and 75th percentile, ranked, with the same figures for brokers.

Median state$56,930agent median, middle of the 48 states

Highest$123,770District of Columbia

Lowest$38,180Arkansas

Spread3.2×highest state over lowest

Agents, ranked by median pay

Click a state for its full page: percentiles, brokers, hourly equivalent and the states around it.

#	State	Median	25th pct	75th pct	Brokers, median	Agents employed
1	District of Columbia	$123,770	$44,180	$123,770	—	590
2	New York	$102,990	$58,030	$156,810	—	8,660
3	New Jersey	$99,990	$63,000	$111,990	$111,390	—
4	Alaska	$89,170	$71,390	$103,540	$65,820	170
5	Nevada	$79,990	$46,740	$106,190	—	1,490
6	Washington	$79,130	$63,010	$100,360	$82,790	5,150
7	Montana	$79,100	$67,590	$91,170	$63,240	370
8	New Mexico	$76,170	$56,880	$111,390	$80,340	550
9	North Dakota	$73,920	$38,200	$91,120	$73,300	—
10	South Dakota	$65,170	$47,960	$77,070	—	640
11	Virginia	$63,980	$43,120	$94,050	$77,270	5,750
12	Colorado	$63,670	$37,040	$95,360	$79,970	6,120
13	Oregon	$61,610	$40,960	$81,400	$63,070	1,940
14	Alabama	$60,890	$38,890	$89,400	$82,630	1,580
15	Rhode Island	$60,310	$41,890	$68,530	—	—
16	Illinois	$59,220	$38,060	$61,790	$62,540	6,030
17	West Virginia	$59,050	$40,590	$76,400	$58,960	370
18	Arizona	$58,780	$41,250	$94,330	$74,260	5,610
19	Kentucky	$58,610	$39,570	$76,040	—	1,120
20	Wisconsin	$58,120	$45,210	$72,000	—	5,680
21	Michigan	$57,880	$40,140	$78,190	$82,510	2,210
22	New Hampshire	$57,620	$47,020	$84,990	$51,490	240
23	California	$57,560	$45,520	$78,250	$80,450	17,500
24	Maine	$56,930	$33,780	$78,630	$55,280	740
25	South Carolina	$56,580	$39,990	$97,470	—	4,930
26	Pennsylvania	$56,040	$46,500	$78,840	—	5,510
27	Maryland	$52,630	$43,070	$77,990	$81,550	2,940
28	North Carolina	$51,240	$39,740	$99,890	$52,830	7,960
29	Utah	$50,720	$37,120	$60,090	$92,830	4,240
30	Wyoming	$49,990	$30,940	$62,930	—	300
31	Florida	$49,310	$39,330	$79,990	$66,010	26,790
32	Oklahoma	$47,980	$35,160	$73,220	—	3,710
33	Nebraska	$47,240	$47,070	$61,710	—	1,400
34	Delaware	$47,180	$36,950	$58,240	$68,690	900
35	Indiana	$46,880	$37,790	$61,990	$75,000	3,680
36	Connecticut	$46,770	$42,850	$67,710	$105,800	—
37	Georgia	$46,730	$36,980	$73,880	—	9,940
38	Minnesota	$46,410	$42,240	$62,070	$39,850	2,530
39	Tennessee	$46,250	$36,210	$77,400	$60,150	2,360
40	Ohio	$46,240	$36,460	$59,290	$64,510	5,130
41	Hawaii	$46,220	$43,810	$64,890	$74,310	690
42	Louisiana	$45,850	$31,110	$62,350	—	1,940
43	Texas	$45,740	$36,920	$74,660	$63,390	22,250
44	Missouri	$43,960	$37,180	$63,600	$62,280	1,590
45	Idaho	$39,820	$30,280	$54,690	$57,660	1,170
46	Kansas	$39,770	$36,990	$51,000	$69,990	1,450
47	Mississippi	$39,550	$29,050	$61,290	$41,690	670
48	Arkansas	$38,180	$30,640	$86,260	$73,800	1,640

Reading the pay figures

These are wages for people employed as real estate sales agents (occupation 41-9022) and brokers (41-9021), estimated by the BLS from its employer survey. Agents are mostly paid on commission, so the spread between the 25th and 75th percentile is wide and the median is the fairer single figure. The survey counts employees and does not capture every independent contractor, so the employment column understates the number of licensed agents in a state. A dash means the BLS did not publish that estimate. More on this in the methodology; the figures were read from the BLS state file on September 8, 2026.

Want the same survey by city? Pay for agents and brokers in 312 metropolitan and 96 nonmetropolitan areas (OEWS May 2025, as the BLS publishes it) is a free download on figshare.