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.
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.
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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How to use Elmira, NY wage figures in a real decision
- Chief Executives leads published medians in Elmira, NY at $192,530/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Chief Executives
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $57,361 adjusts to about $60,765 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 94.4. 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.