What’s the Average Real Estate Broker Salary?
It depends on who you ask! Different sources break down broker salaries in different ways and use different surveys (and survey respondents) to answer that question.
This encompasses a wide range of salaries. According to the BLS, the bottom 10th percentile of brokers make $30,470, while the top 90th percentile of brokers make $176,080—almost six times as much.
According to Glassdoor, the median real estate broker salary in the United States (as of December 2021) was $120,229 a year: $89,681 in base pay, and $30,547 in additional pay. A median is more representative than an average, which can skew very high or low depending on outlier earners on both ends of the spectrum. For the national survey, the low end of a broker’s salary range was $41,000, and the high end was $370,000.
How does that look on a state-by-state basis? As you can imagine, home prices and other variables influence how much a real estate broker can make in different locations. Here’s how real estate broker pay breaks down in each state. For the numbers below, “additional pay” includes cash bonuses, commissions, tips, and profit sharing.
Alabama
$106,465
$78,330 base pay + $28,135 additional pay
Alaska
$106,517
$76,139 base pay + $30,378 additional pay
Arizona
$117,403
$87,262 base pay + $30,141 additional pay
Arkansas
$116,371
$85,046 base pay + $31,325 additional pay
California
$125,699
$95,272 base pay + $30,427 additional pay
Colorado
$114,426
$85,058 base pay + $29,368 additional pay
Connecticut
$112,182
$84,410 base pay + $27,772 additional pay
Delaware
$117,666
$87,151 base pay + $30,515 additional pay
District of Columbia
$109,176
$79,899 base pay + $29,277 additional pay
Florida
$115,202
$85,053 base pay + $30,149 additional pay
Georgia
$104,880
$77,052 base pay + $27,828 additional pay
Hawaii
$121,782
$92,659 base pay + $29,123 additional pay
Idaho
$112,375
$81,576 base pay + $30,799 additional pay
Illinois
$114,906
$84,519 base pay + $30,386 additional pay
Indiana
$112,668
$84,357 base pay + $28,311 additional pay
Iowa
$120,036
$87,614 base pay + $32,422 additional pay
Kansas
$113,477
$82,631 base pay + $30,847 additional pay
Kentucky
$108,151
$78,113 base pay + $30,038 additional pay
Louisiana
$108,972
$76,084 base pay + $32,889 additional pay
Maine
$124,361
$94,164 base pay + $30,197 additional pay
Maryland
$115,987
$86,288 base pay + $29,699 additional pay
Massachusetts
$119,030
$88,862 base pay + $30,168 additional pay
Michigan
$105,834
$78,757 base pay + $27,077 additional pay
Minnesota
$105,966
$78,030 base pay + $27,936 additional pay
Mississippi
$112,742
$81,654 base pay + $31,089 additional pay
Missouri
$125,859
$93,682 base pay + $32,178 additional pay
Montana
$110,423
$78,616 base pay + $31,806 additional pay
Nebraska
$105,147
$76,960 base pay + $28,187 additional pay
Nevada
$105,746
$77,122 base pay + $28,624 additional pay
New Hampshire
$115,651
$84,427 base pay + $31,224 additional pay
New Jersey
$117,476
$87,524 base pay + $29,952 additional pay
New Mexico
$102,949
$73,652 base pay + $29,297 additional pay
New York
$137,250
$103,762 base pay + $33,488 additional pay
North Carolina
$110,272
$80,499 base pay + $29,773 additional pay
North Dakota
$110,858
$80,861 base pay + $29,997 additional pay
Ohio
$117,812
$88,372 base pay + $29,440 additional pay
Oklahoma
$114,612
$79,273 base pay + $32,339 additional pay
Oregon
$109,489
$89,944 base pay + $28,546 additional pay
Rhode Island
$112,390
$84,150 base pay + $28,240 additional pay
South Carolina
$117,368
$85,058 base pay + $29,368 additional pay
South Dakota
$116,213
$84,485 base pay + $31,728 additional pay
Tennessee
$117,1151
$85,645 base pay + $31,470 additional pay
Texas
$109,290
$77,987 base pay + $31,303 additional pay
Utah
$105,948
$77,079 base pay + $28,870 additional pay
Vermont
$123,490
$91,256 base pay + $32,234 additional pay
Virginia
$113,125
$82,979 base pay + $30,145 additional pay
Washington
$115,296
$84,614 base pay + $30,682 additional pay
West Virginia
$110,445
$80,045 base pay + $30,400 additional pay
Wisconsin
$110,974
$82,761 base pay + $28,212 additional pay
Wyoming
$112,608
$81,329 base pay + $31,279 additional pay