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Anthropologists and Archeologists pay in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH and New Orleans-Metairie, LA
The May 2025 BLS OEWS median for Anthropologists and Archeologists is $117,080 per year in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. It is $47,750 per year in New Orleans-Metairie, LA. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH is 145.2% above New Orleans-Metairie, LA on the published median.
Both rows use SOC 19-3091 and the same annual wage metric. Median means the middle of each area's published wage spread. It is not one worker's pay. The larger median is not proof that one place gives a better job or a better result. It is one wage fact from one source period.
BLS lists 70 wage and salary jobs in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH and 50 in New Orleans-Metairie, LA. Those are survey job counts, not open posts. Read pay, job scale, local share, and price level as separate facts before you make a choice.