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National ranking · 2024 BEA RPP, services

Metros with the highest service prices

The 25 U.S. metros with the highest services price index, healthcare, education, professional services, and recreation. Kahului-Wailuku tops the list at a services RPP of 190.6. Service prices track local wages closely, so high-wage metros lead.

25
Metros ranked
190.6
#1 - Kahului-Wailuku
109.4
Its overall RPP

According to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, service prices track local wage levels because labor is the input cost. This ranking uses the services component of the agency's 2024 Regional Price Parities, published in December 2025. See our methodology for how the index is built.

This ranking sorts the 25 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas with the highest services RPP from the most recent BEA Regional Price Parities release. The services component captures non-housing services, healthcare, education, professional services, restaurants, recreation. Service prices track local wage levels closely because labor is the input cost; metros with high RPP-Services typically also show high BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics medians for service-sector occupations like registered nurses, teachers, and lawyers.

Service costs are the slowest-moving component of household spending, your dental cleaning, a child's tuition, or a haircut don't compete on national supply chains the way TVs do. That makes services RPP a reliable long-run signal for the cost of staying healthy, educated, and entertained in a given metro. Cross-reference the figures below with BLS OEWS for occupation-specific wage premiums in the same metros, and with overall RPP to see how services interact with rents and goods to produce the headline cost figure.

# Metro area ServicesOverallGoodsRents
1 Kahului-Wailuku, HI 190.6 109.4 111.6 119.2
2 Urban Honolulu, HI 187.3 111.0 111.6 135.5
3 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA 174.2 111.9 108.0 179.3
4 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 172.6 115.6 108.5 194.7
5 Fresno, CA 161.0 102.2 105.2 95.7
6 Yuba City, CA 160.8 104.2 105.2 108.3
7 Chico, CA 158.8 101.2 105.2 91.9
8 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA 158.6 113.6 106.6 170.4
9 Barnstable Town, MA 158.4 98.4 97.0 90.0
10 Merced, CA 158.3 98.3 105.2 78.6
11 Bakersfield-Delano, CA 158.3 100.9 105.2 90.3
12 Stockton-Lodi, CA 158.2 105.1 105.2 115.6
13 Redding, CA 157.7 100.7 105.2 89.4
14 Hanford-Corcoran, CA 157.4 101.6 105.2 93.5
15 El Centro, CA 157.2 95.2 105.2 66.3
16 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 156.7 110.4 105.2 211.9
17 Napa, CA 156.5 112.6 105.2 197.4
18 Visalia, CA 156.4 99.8 105.2 84.1
19 Amherst Town-Northampton, MA 155.7 100.2 97.0 97.5
20 Worcester, MA 155.2 102.5 97.0 113.0
21 Springfield, MA 155.0 96.1 97.0 75.8
22 Vallejo, CA 155.0 108.5 105.2 142.0
23 Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA 154.8 107.8 105.2 139.6
24 Salinas, CA 154.2 109.0 105.2 145.7
25 Pittsfield, MA 153.7 95.1 97.0 73.5

Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis · Regional Price Parities Bureau of Economic Analysis · Regional Price Parities Sourced from the BEA Regional Data API; 25 metros shown. National average = 100.