Seattle's on Top of Best Places for Reators

If the unending boom of Seattle's real estate market has made you think more than once about becoming an agent yourself, you're probably wise.

A new ranking from financial data site WalletHub put Seattle near the top of the heap among the best places to be a real estate agent.

For anyone who's bought or sold a house in the area recently, that should be a surprise. Seattle's median sale price rose to more than $736,000 in March, according to data from Zillow. And demand for housing remained stunningly high.

Indeed.com put the average annual salary for agents in Seattle at more than $92,000, about 22 percent higher than the national average. Read More