DETROIT, MI – CNN Money has taken data from PayScale and put together a list of the Top 10 U.S. metropolitan areas with the largest on-year pay hikes during the third quarter of this year.

With a 2 percent year-over-year increase, Metro Detroit took the ninth spot.

From CNN Money:

PayScale, a website for career shoppers that also tracks employment payment data, puts quarterly reports out on compensation in the private sector.

For a telling bar graph on our country's recent recession, follow this link and check out the "National (US) Year-Over-Year Percentage Change in Pay by Quarter."

PayScale, for its part, projects a 0.8 percent wage increase nationally during the fourth quarter of 2013. It bases its projection in the U.S Consumer Price Index and past unemployment rates.

According to U.S. Census Bureau figures released last month, Metro Detroit's median household income dropped three years straight from $55,836 in 2008. to $49,923 in 2011. The bureau's 2012 estimate was $50,310.

Here are the top ten cities with the largest pay increases in the third quarter:

City/One-year pay increase

San Francisco – 3.7 percent

Baltimore – 3 percent

Seattle – 2.7 percent

Atlanta - 2.5 percent

Dallas - 2.5 percent

Washington, D.C. – 2.4 percent

St. Louis - 2.3 percent

Houston – 2.1 percent

Detroit – 2 percent

Minneapolis – 2 percent

David Muller is the business reporter for MLive Media Group in Detroit. Email him at dmuller@mlive.com or follow him on Twitter or Facebook.