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.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
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.
Similar mean wage
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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How to use Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY wage figures in a real decision
- Anesthesiologists leads published medians in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY at $512,620/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Anesthesiologists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $66,336 adjusts to about $69,212 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 95.8. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for NY before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.