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.
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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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.