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.
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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