Home / Engine and Other Machine Assemblers / Best Cities Best Cities for Engine and Other Machine Assemblerss Cities ranked by purchasing power — where engine and other machine assemblerss 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 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metro 1.67 $102,530 $89,703 26% 2 Ohio State 1.54 $74,750 $82,688 17% 3 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metro 1.32 $64,820 $71,075 23% 4 Washington State 1.26 $72,800 $67,847 31% 5 Michigan State 1.23 $60,950 $66,035 22% 6 New Hampshire State 1.23 $70,150 $66,179 27% 7 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro 1.22 $65,410 $65,739 27% 8 Arkansas State 1.18 $54,620 $63,291 19% 9 Oregon State 1.15 $63,420 $61,573 30% 10 Minnesota State 1.12 $58,820 $60,020 26% 11 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro 1.11 $64,240 $59,592 33% 12 Wisconsin State 1.09 $54,240 $58,765 24% 13 Connecticut State 1.06 $61,320 $56,989 31% 14 Idaho State 1.05 $54,240 $56,207 27% 15 Mississippi State 1.02 $46,610 $54,965 23% 16 Nebraska State 1.01 $49,590 $54,197 25% 17 Arizona State 1.00 $54,100 $53,617 33% 18 Pennsylvania State 1.00 $52,000 $53,608 30% 19 Missouri State 0.98 $46,720 $52,731 27% 20 Florida State 0.97 $52,660 $51,882 39% 21 Iowa State 0.96 $46,040 $51,614 25% 22 Illinois State 0.95 $49,630 $50,955 32% 23 Oklahoma State 0.95 $45,060 $50,915 26% 24 South Carolina State 0.95 $46,950 $51,033 32% 25 Tennessee State 0.95 $46,810 $51,158 32% 26 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro 0.95 $47,090 $51,185 33% 27 South Dakota State 0.94 $45,930 $50,584 25% 28 Texas State 0.92 $47,210 $49,383 35% 29 Utah State 0.91 $48,730 $48,633 37% 30 North Carolina State 0.90 $45,750 $48,464 34% 31 Kansas City, MO-KS Metro 0.90 $45,060 $48,556 34% 32 Kansas State 0.88 $42,590 $47,322 29% 33 Kentucky State 0.87 $41,580 $46,983 28% 34 New Jersey State 0.87 $50,910 $46,792 42% 35 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD Metro 0.85 $47,350 $45,749 40% 36 Colorado State 0.81 $46,070 $43,710 48% 37 Massachusetts State 0.80 $46,880 $43,207 58% 38 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro 0.80 $48,990 $43,163 63% 39 California State 0.79 $46,810 $42,285 58% 40 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro 0.79 $40,800 $42,589 44% 41 Georgia State 0.77 $38,540 $41,263 44% 42 New York State 0.77 $46,460 $41,298 48% 43 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Metro 0.75 $46,620 $40,017 58% 44 Maryland State 0.67 $39,120 $35,824 52% 45 Virginia State 0.65 $36,030 $34,812 52% 46 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro 0.63 $40,650 $33,819 93%
Data Sources: Salary: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS). Cost of Living: BEA Regional Price Parities (2024). Rent: HUD Fair Market Rents (FY2025).