Kingston, NY Salaries

Largest OEWS employment footprints with published wages - BLS May 2025

Observed metro pay change

What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025

May 2024 → May 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.

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).

  1. 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

Guayama, PR · lowest mean: $32KGuayama, PR · lowest mean$32KKingston, NY · this MSA: $62KKingston, NY · this MSA$62KLexington-Fayette, KY · near: $62KLexington-Fayette, KY · near$62KSalisbury, MD · near: $62KSalisbury, MD · near$62KGreen Bay, WI · near: $62KGreen Bay, WI · near$62KLincoln, NE · near: $62KLincoln, NE · near$62KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean: $119KSan Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · high…$119K
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Label Value
Guayama, PR · lowest mean $32K
Kingston, NY · this MSA $62K
Lexington-Fayette, KY · near $62K
Salisbury, MD · near $62K
Green Bay, WI · near $62K
Lincoln, NE · near $62K
San Jose-Sunnyvale-S… · highest mean $119K

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. 1. Software Developers 230 jobs · $124,300
  2. 2. Lawyers 220 jobs · $115,280
  3. 3. Financial Managers 210 jobs · $146,070
  4. 4. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 150 jobs · $137,220
  5. 5. Medical and Health Services Managers 130 jobs · $133,120
  6. 6. Pharmacists 110 jobs · $142,360
  7. 7. Sales Managers 100 jobs · $143,260
  8. 8. Computer and Information Systems Managers 90 jobs · $154,270
  9. 9. Marketing Managers 90 jobs · $127,400
  10. 10. Radiologic Technologists and Technicians 90 jobs · $103,480
  11. 11. Nurse Practitioners 70 jobs · $151,370
  12. 12. Administrative Services Managers 70 jobs · $121,590
  13. 13. Clinical and Counseling Psychologists 70 jobs · $106,440
  14. 14. Industrial Production Managers 60 jobs · $128,990
  15. 15. Dentists, General 50 jobs · $162,780
  16. 16. Human Resources Managers 50 jobs · $158,980
  17. 17. Facilities Managers 50 jobs · $105,310
  18. 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

Price-level adjustment: Dividing the derived published-row mean of $61,989 by the metro RPP gives $61,553 on a national-price basis. This is not an after-tax income or a personal cost-of-living result.

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

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average salary in Kingston, NY?
Across the 251 occupation rows for Kingston, NY with both a published mean wage and employment estimate, weighting each mean by employment gives $61,989/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 $133,923, which describes the displayed top tier only.
What is the highest paying job in Kingston, NY?
The highest paying occupation in Kingston, NY is Chief Executives with a median salary of $199,860/year. The second highest is Dentists, General at $162,780/year.
What is the cost of living in Kingston, NY?
Kingston, NY has a Regional Price Parity of 100.7, meaning prices are 1% above the national average. Dividing the derived published-row mean of $61,989 by the RPP gives a national-price-equivalent benchmark of $61,553.
What jobs pay the least in Kingston, NY?
The lowest paying occupation in Kingston, NY is Parking Attendants with a median salary of $32,240/year according to BLS data.
How is employment used on this Kingston, NY wage page?
Employment counts are BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates for occupations published in this MSA. Roster and peer sections sort on those counts; the published-row mean weights each occupation's mean wage by its employment estimate. Occupations without employment are excluded from the weighted mean but can still appear when a median exists.

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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