Glens Falls, NY Salaries

Highest published occupation medians in Glens Falls, NY - BLS OEWS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 2025
  • BLS's published All Occupations median in Glens Falls, NY moved from $48,360 in May 2024 to $49,090 in May 2025 (+1.5%).
  • Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
  • Glens Falls, NY sits -1.6 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.

BLS OEWS metro wage desk

MSA 24020 · Glens Falls, NY $61K mean

MEAN-MID · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST

  • MEAN-MID #171/528
  • RPP-LOW 94.9
  • OCC-MID 253 occs
  • TOP-LEAD Physicians, Al… · $228K
  • EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
  • TREND-INLINE -1.6 pp
  • PHOTO-FINISH Sierra Vista-Dou…
  • BOOK-MOST 251 rows · May 2025

Read with Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ (+$22 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 Glens Falls, NY

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KGlens Falls, NY · this MSA: $61KGlens Falls, NY · this MSA$61KSierra Vista-Douglas… · near: $61KSierra Vista-Douglas… · near$61KSan Antonio-New Brau… · near: $61KSan Antonio-New Brau… · near$61KIowa City, IA · near: $61KIowa City, IA · near$61KAppleton, WI · near: $61KAppleton, WI · near$61KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Glens Falls, NY · this MSA $61K
Sierra Vista-Douglas… · near $61K
San Antonio-New Brau… · near $61K
Iowa City, IA · near $61K
Appleton, WI · near $61K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

Employment scale inside Glens Falls, NY's top-pay list

Financial Managers and Lawyers lead published employment inside Glens Falls, NY's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.

  1. 1. Financial Managers 180 jobs · $161,300
  2. 2. Lawyers 160 jobs · $109,240
  3. 3. Software Developers 150 jobs · $132,040
  4. 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 150 jobs · $130,350
  5. 5. Sales Managers 130 jobs · $160,660
  6. 6. Nurse Practitioners 120 jobs · $133,810
  7. 7. Pharmacists 120 jobs · $132,150
  8. 8. Computer and Information Systems Managers 100 jobs · $164,530
  9. 9. Marketing Managers 100 jobs · $154,960
  10. 10. Physician Assistants 100 jobs · $132,700
  11. 11. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 100 jobs · $108,950
  12. 12. Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents 100 jobs · $107,070
  13. 13. Industrial Production Managers 60 jobs · $128,350
  14. 14. Human Resources Managers 60 jobs · $123,570
  15. 15. Physicians, All Other 50 jobs · $228,480
  16. 16. Chief Executives 50 jobs · $192,520
  17. 17. Managers, All Other 50 jobs · $142,070
  18. 18. Administrative Services Managers 50 jobs · $123,000

Occupations Tracked

253

with wage data

Published-Row Mean

$60,928

employment-weighted, 251 complete rows

Top Salary

$228,480

Physicians, All Other

Cost of Living

94.9

5% below US avg

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $60,928 by the metro RPP gives $64,225 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

Highest Paying Jobs in Glens Falls, NY

# Occupation Median Salary
1 Physicians, All Other $228,480
2 Chief Executives $192,520
3 Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates $177,840
4 Computer and Information Systems Managers $164,530
5 Dentists, General $162,780
6 Financial Managers $161,300
7 Sales Managers $160,660
8 Marketing Managers $154,960
9 Managers, All Other $142,070
10 General Internal Medicine Physicians $140,720
11 Nurse Practitioners $133,810
12 Physician Assistants $132,700
13 Pharmacists $132,150
14 Software Developers $132,040
15 Medical and Health Services Managers $130,350
16 Industrial Production Managers $128,350
17 Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers $124,580
18 Human Resources Managers $123,570
19 Administrative Services Managers $123,000
20 Construction Managers $117,930
21 Architects, Except Landscape and Naval $111,200
22 Lawyers $109,240
23 Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary $108,950
24 Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers $107,210
25 Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents $107,070

Lowest Paying Jobs in Glens Falls, NY

Occupation Median Salary
Parking Attendants $32,420
Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers $32,990
Amusement and Recreation Attendants $33,080
Cashiers $33,470
Fast Food and Counter Workers $33,890
Dishwashers $34,010
Library Assistants, Clerical $34,070
Food Preparation Workers $34,200
Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders $34,430
Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers $34,560

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.

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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 ($60,928 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Glens Falls, NY? ▼
Across the 251 occupation rows for Glens Falls, NY with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $60,928/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). The page has 253 occupations with a published median, a different denominator. This WageDex-derived benchmark is not a BLS-published All Occupations metro mean or median and does not state what a typical local worker earns. For contrast, averaging the medians of only the 25 highest-paying occupations gives $140,320, which describes the displayed top tier only.
Which published medians lead Glens Falls, NY? ▼
Physicians, All Other holds the highest published median in Glens Falls, NY at $228,480/year (BLS OEWS May 2025). Next is Chief Executives at $192,520/year. These are occupation medians for this metropolitan statistical area, not employer offers.
What is the cost of living in Glens Falls, NY? ▼
Glens Falls, NY has a Regional Price Parity of 94.9, meaning prices are 5% below the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $60,928 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $64,225.
Where does BLS salary data for Glens Falls, NY come from? ▼
All salary figures are Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS May 2025 estimates for this metropolitan statistical area. OEWS surveys approximately 1.1 million business establishments. Medians and means on this page are the published occupation-level estimates for the area — not job-board scrapes or modeled employer offers.

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Last updated: May 2025 (BLS OEWS annual release). Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025. Cost-of-living index: BEA Regional Price Parities, 2024.

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.

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