Ithaca, NY Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Ithaca, NY - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Ithaca, NY moved from $56,350 in May 2024 to $58,130 in May 2025 (+3.2%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Ithaca, NY sits +0.1 pp near 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 27060 · Ithaca, NY $73K mean
MEAN-MEGA · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MEGA #27/528
- RPP-MID 103.3
- OCC-MID 237 occs
- TOP-LEAD General Intern… · $370K
- EMP-MIX Health Speci…
- TREND-INLINE +0.1 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Chicago-Napervil…
- BOOK-MOST 236 rows · May 2025
Read with Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN (+$92 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 Ithaca, NY
Employment scale inside Ithaca, NY's top-pay list
Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary and Software Developers lead published employment inside Ithaca, NY's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary 1,140 jobs · $159,720
- 2. Software Developers 310 jobs · $122,730
- 3. Nurse Practitioners 270 jobs · $136,980
- 4. Physician Assistants 230 jobs · $138,920
- 5. Education Administrators, Postsecondary 230 jobs · $132,470
- 6. Financial Managers 210 jobs · $152,410
- 7. Computer and Information Systems Managers 190 jobs · $168,410
- 8. Lawyers 130 jobs · $135,610
- 9. General Internal Medicine Physicians 120 jobs · $370,320
- 10. Administrative Services Managers 90 jobs · $127,610
- 11. Marketing Managers 70 jobs · $167,480
- 12. Sales Managers 70 jobs · $156,140
- 13. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 70 jobs · $121,910
- 14. Veterinarians 60 jobs · $131,870
- 15. Architectural and Engineering Managers 50 jobs · $166,530
- 16. Human Resources Managers 50 jobs · $164,420
- 17. Fundraising Managers 50 jobs · $127,610
- 18. Psychiatrists 40 jobs · $280,210
Occupations Tracked
237
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$73,083
employment-weighted, 236 complete rows
Top Salary
$370,320
General Internal Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
103.3
3% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Ithaca, NY
Lowest Paying Jobs in Ithaca, NY
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $34,430 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $34,690 |
| Recreation Workers | $34,770 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $34,800 |
| Dishwashers | $35,170 |
| Cashiers | $35,470 |
| Retail Salespersons | $35,510 |
| Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment | $35,690 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $35,700 |
| Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers | $35,960 |
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 ($73,083 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 Ithaca, NY wage figures in a real decision
- General Internal Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Ithaca, NY at $370,320/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. General Internal Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $73,083 adjusts to about $70,737 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 103.3. 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.