Elmira, NY Salaries
Largest OEWS employment footprints with published wages - BLS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Elmira, NY moved from $47,220 in May 2024 to $47,850 in May 2025 (+1.3%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Elmira, NY sits -1.8 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 21300 · Elmira, NY $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #280/528
- RPP-LOW 94.4
- OCC-THIN 176 occs
- TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $193K
- EMP-MIX General and…
- TREND-INLINE -1.8 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Jefferson City, MO
- BOOK-MOST 176 rows · May 2025
Read with Jefferson City, MO (+$31 on published-row mean) · Fastest-growing occupations
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 Elmira, NY
Largest published OEWS footprints in Elmira, NY
General and Operations Managers and Project Management Specialists lead published employment inside Elmira, NY's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. General and Operations Managers 640 jobs · $94,830
- 2. Project Management Specialists 150 jobs · $96,250
- 3. Nurse Practitioners 130 jobs · $138,700
- 4. Financial Managers 110 jobs · $150,120
- 5. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 90 jobs · $106,800
- 6. Lawyers 80 jobs · $126,900
- 7. Medical and Health Services Managers 80 jobs · $124,810
- 8. Pharmacists 70 jobs · $142,640
- 9. Industrial Production Managers 70 jobs · $108,990
- 10. Network and Computer Systems Administrators 70 jobs · $97,950
- 11. Computer and Information Systems Managers 60 jobs · $141,700
- 12. Physician Assistants 60 jobs · $137,550
- 13. Sales Managers 60 jobs · $130,660
- 14. Management Analysts 60 jobs · $90,190
- 15. Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 50 jobs · $116,910
- 16. First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers 50 jobs · $87,670
- 17. Chief Executives 40 jobs · $192,530
- 18. Marketing Managers 40 jobs · $141,720
Occupations Tracked
176
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$57,361
employment-weighted, 176 complete rows
Top Salary
$192,530
Chief Executives
Cost of Living
94.4
6% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Elmira, NY, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Elmira, NY
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers | $32,330 |
| Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners | $32,350 |
| Dishwashers | $32,530 |
| Cashiers | $32,790 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $32,950 |
| Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs | $32,970 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $33,250 |
| School Bus Monitors | $33,700 |
| Food Preparation Workers | $34,010 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $34,090 |
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 ($57,361 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
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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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.