Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY moved from $50,190 in May 2024 to $50,790 in May 2025 (+1.2%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY sits -1.9 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY
Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education publishes $89,950 here versus $64,370 nationally (+39.7%; 2,870metro-area jobs). Next is Bartenders at $46,920 locally versus $34,340 nationally (+36.6%).
- Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$89,950 in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY sits 39.7% above the national Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education median of $64,370 (2,870 published local jobs).
- Bartenders$46,920 in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY sits 36.6% above the national Bartenders median of $34,340 (2,890 published local jobs).
- Waiters and Waitresses$46,580 in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY sits 32.2% above the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (7,990 published local jobs).
- Electricians$77,930 in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY sits 23.3% above the national Electricians median of $63,190 (2,340 published local jobs).
Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 15380 · Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY $66K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-HIGH #82/528
- RPP-MID 95.8
- OCC-MOST 586 occs
- TOP-LEAD Anesthesiologi… · $513K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE -1.9 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Bend, OR
- BOOK-FULL 571 rows · May 2025
Read with Bend, OR (+$0 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY
Employment scale inside Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY's top-pay list
Financial Managers and Computer and Information Systems Managers lead published employment inside Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 2,680 jobs · $164,230
- 2. Computer and Information Systems Managers 1,590 jobs · $172,650
- 3. Sales Managers 1,200 jobs · $163,090
- 4. Architectural and Engineering Managers 630 jobs · $164,120
- 5. Chief Executives 420 jobs · $239,990
- 6. General Internal Medicine Physicians 360 jobs · $186,600
- 7. Dentists, General 270 jobs · $178,260
- 8. Emergency Medicine Physicians 210 jobs · $303,190
- 9. Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates 180 jobs · $174,250
- 10. Optometrists 160 jobs · $165,640
- 11. Surgeons, All Other 150 jobs · $411,410
- 12. Family Medicine Physicians 140 jobs · $228,190
- 13. Pediatricians, General 140 jobs · $214,480
- 14. Cardiologists 130 jobs · $451,790
- 15. Radiologists 120 jobs · $318,300
- 16. Neurologists 80 jobs · $451,510
- 17. Psychiatrists 70 jobs · $244,960
- 18. Nurse Anesthetists 50 jobs · $247,970
Occupations Tracked
586
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$66,336
employment-weighted, 571 complete rows
Top Salary
$512,620
Anesthesiologists
Cost of Living
95.8
4% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anesthesiologists | $512,620 |
| 2 | Cardiologists | $451,790 |
| 3 | Neurologists | $451,510 |
| 4 | Surgeons, All Other | $411,410 |
| 5 | Radiologists | $318,300 |
| 6 | Physicians, Pathologists | $305,600 |
| 7 | Emergency Medicine Physicians | $303,190 |
| 8 | Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric | $269,700 |
| 9 | Obstetricians and Gynecologists | $258,760 |
| 10 | Nurse Anesthetists | $247,970 |
| 11 | Psychiatrists | $244,960 |
| 12 | Chief Executives | $239,990 |
| 13 | Family Medicine Physicians | $228,190 |
| 14 | Pediatricians, General | $214,480 |
| 15 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $186,600 |
| 16 | Dentists, All Other Specialists | $182,480 |
| 17 | Dentists, General | $178,260 |
| 18 | Physicists | $175,060 |
| 19 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $174,250 |
| 20 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $172,650 |
| 21 | Optometrists | $165,640 |
| 22 | Financial Managers | $164,230 |
| 23 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $164,120 |
| 24 | Sales Managers | $163,090 |
| 25 | Advertising and Promotions Managers | $156,500 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Passenger Attendants | $32,240 |
| Manicurists and Pedicurists | $32,240 |
| Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants | $32,510 |
| Library Assistants, Clerical | $32,690 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $32,950 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $33,270 |
| Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other | $33,330 |
| Recreation Workers | $33,640 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $33,690 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $33,730 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in NY
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside NY. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($66,336 here) and summed published employment.
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Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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