Kingston, 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 Kingston, NY moved from $49,050 in May 2024 to $50,020 in May 2025 (+2.0%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Kingston, NY sits -1.1 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.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Kingston, NY
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $37,750 here versus $35,800 nationally (+5.4%; 2,110metro-area jobs).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$37,750 in Kingston, NY sits 5.4% above the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (2,110 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Kingston, NY; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 28740 · Kingston, NY $62K mean
MEAN-MID · RPP-MID · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-MID #154/528
- RPP-MID 100.7
- OCC-MID 253 occs
- TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $200K
- EMP-MIX Software Dev…
- TREND-INLINE -1.1 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Lexington-Fayett…
- BOOK-MOST 251 rows · May 2025
Read with Lexington-Fayette, KY ($97 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 Kingston, NY
Largest published OEWS footprints in Kingston, NY
Software Developers and Lawyers lead published employment inside Kingston, NY's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Software Developers 230 jobs · $124,300
- 2. Lawyers 220 jobs · $115,280
- 3. Financial Managers 210 jobs · $146,070
- 4. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 150 jobs · $137,220
- 5. Medical and Health Services Managers 130 jobs · $133,120
- 6. Pharmacists 110 jobs · $142,360
- 7. Sales Managers 100 jobs · $143,260
- 8. Computer and Information Systems Managers 90 jobs · $154,270
- 9. Marketing Managers 90 jobs · $127,400
- 10. Radiologic Technologists and Technicians 90 jobs · $103,480
- 11. Nurse Practitioners 70 jobs · $151,370
- 12. Administrative Services Managers 70 jobs · $121,590
- 13. Clinical and Counseling Psychologists 70 jobs · $106,440
- 14. Industrial Production Managers 60 jobs · $128,990
- 15. Dentists, General 50 jobs · $162,780
- 16. Human Resources Managers 50 jobs · $158,980
- 17. Facilities Managers 50 jobs · $105,310
- 18. Chief Executives 40 jobs · $199,860
Occupations Tracked
253
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$61,989
employment-weighted, 251 complete rows
Top Salary
$199,860
Chief Executives
Cost of Living
100.7
1% above US avg
Top-pay occupations in Kingston, NY, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Software Developers | $124,300 |
| 2 | Lawyers | $115,280 |
| 3 | Financial Managers | $146,070 |
| 4 | Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary | $137,220 |
| 5 | Medical and Health Services Managers | $133,120 |
| 6 | Pharmacists | $142,360 |
| 7 | Sales Managers | $143,260 |
| 8 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $154,270 |
| 9 | Marketing Managers | $127,400 |
| 10 | Radiologic Technologists and Technicians | $103,480 |
| 11 | Nurse Practitioners | $151,370 |
| 12 | Administrative Services Managers | $121,590 |
| 13 | Clinical and Counseling Psychologists | $106,440 |
| 14 | Industrial Production Managers | $128,990 |
| 15 | Dentists, General | $162,780 |
| 16 | Human Resources Managers | $158,980 |
| 17 | Facilities Managers | $105,310 |
| 18 | Chief Executives | $199,860 |
| 19 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $160,490 |
| 20 | Physician Assistants | $150,470 |
| 21 | Veterinarians | $135,760 |
| 22 | Managers, All Other | $117,920 |
| 23 | Civil Engineers | $110,610 |
| 24 | Diagnostic Medical Sonographers | $105,580 |
| 25 | Data Scientists | $105,160 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Kingston, NY
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Parking Attendants | $32,240 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $32,240 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $33,970 |
| Manicurists and Pedicurists | $34,500 |
| Packers and Packagers, Hand | $34,640 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $34,720 |
| Cashiers | $34,770 |
| School Bus Monitors | $34,770 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $34,980 |
| Food Servers, Nonrestaurant | $34,980 |
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 ($61,989 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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- Chief Executives leads published medians in Kingston, NY at $199,860/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Chief Executives
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $61,989 adjusts to about $61,553 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 100.7. 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.