Home / Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles / Best Cities Best Cities for Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicless Cities ranked by purchasing power — where electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicless get the most value from their salary after accounting for cost of living. A score above 1.00 means better than national average.
How we calculate this: City Score = (Local Salary ÷ National Median) ÷ (Local Cost ÷ National Avg Cost). A score of 1.20 means 20% better purchasing power than average.
# Location Score Raw Salary Adjusted Salary Rent/Income 1 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro 1.67 $78,420 $81,012 25% 2 Kentucky State 1.51 $64,570 $72,960 18% 3 Georgia State 1.32 $59,550 $63,758 29% 4 Indiana State 1.29 $56,730 $62,685 22% 5 Iowa State 1.28 $55,160 $61,839 21% 6 West Virginia State 1.27 $51,890 $61,627 19% 7 Idaho State 1.19 $55,760 $57,782 26% 8 Colorado State 1.18 $60,070 $56,992 37% 9 Arizona State 1.17 $57,280 $56,769 31% 10 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metro 1.16 $51,080 $56,009 29% 11 Washington State 1.14 $59,010 $54,995 39% 12 Oregon State 1.12 $56,000 $54,369 34% 13 New Mexico State 1.11 $49,300 $53,587 26% 14 New York State 1.11 $60,220 $53,529 37% 15 Tennessee State 1.11 $49,140 $53,705 31% 16 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro 1.11 $52,180 $53,683 36% 17 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metro 1.11 $62,680 $53,803 43% 18 Michigan State 1.08 $48,070 $52,080 28% 19 Nebraska State 1.08 $47,630 $52,055 26% 20 South Carolina State 1.08 $48,230 $52,424 31% 21 Montana State 1.07 $49,920 $51,784 27% 22 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metro 1.07 $59,020 $51,636 45% 23 North Dakota State 1.06 $47,310 $51,091 25% 24 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro 1.06 $55,380 $51,373 39% 25 Minnesota State 1.05 $49,740 $50,755 31% 26 Texas State 1.05 $48,730 $50,973 34% 27 Ohio State 1.03 $45,120 $49,912 28% 28 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro 1.03 $49,740 $49,990 36% 29 North Carolina State 1.02 $46,850 $49,629 33% 30 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro 1.02 $56,110 $49,436 55% 31 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro 1.01 $46,850 $48,904 38% 32 Illinois State 1.00 $47,150 $48,409 33% 33 Arkansas State 0.99 $41,510 $48,100 25% 34 Florida State 0.98 $47,980 $47,271 43% 35 Virginia State 0.98 $49,210 $47,546 38% 36 Nevada State 0.95 $46,100 $46,008 38% 37 Louisiana State 0.94 $41,040 $45,549 31% 38 Mississippi State 0.94 $38,500 $45,401 28% 39 Alabama State 0.91 $38,520 $44,225 30% 40 Massachusetts State 0.91 $47,590 $43,862 57% 41 California State 0.90 $48,500 $43,812 56% 42 Hawaii State 0.90 $47,780 $43,436 60% 43 Missouri State 0.90 $38,760 $43,747 32% 44 Kansas City, MO-KS Metro 0.88 $39,400 $42,457 39% 45 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metro 0.88 $46,400 $42,765 53% 46 Connecticut State 0.86 $44,980 $41,803 42% 47 Wisconsin State 0.85 $38,070 $41,246 34% 48 New Jersey State 0.78 $41,070 $37,748 53% 49 Kansas State 0.77 $33,380 $37,089 37% 50 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro 0.71 $35,660 $34,454 54% 51 Pennsylvania State 0.57 $26,640 $27,464 58%
Data Sources: Salary: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS). Cost of Living: BEA Regional Price Parities (2024). Rent: HUD Fair Market Rents (FY2025).