New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Salaries
Local wages against a high BEA price level (RPP 112.6) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ moved from $60,460 in May 2024 to $61,430 in May 2025 (+1.6%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ sits -1.5 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.
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents publishes $167,890 here versus $78,660 nationally (+113.4%; 59,450metro-area jobs). Next is Flight Attendants at $127,740 locally versus $63,580 nationally (+100.9%).
- Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents$167,890 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ sits 113.4% above the national Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents median of $78,660 (59,450 published local jobs).
- Flight Attendants$127,740 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ sits 100.9% above the national Flight Attendants median of $63,580 (18,030 published local jobs).
- Real Estate Sales Agents$103,550 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ sits 96.0% above the national Real Estate Sales Agents median of $52,830 (8,320 published local jobs).
- Firefighters$106,420 in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ sits 79.5% above the national Firefighters median of $59,280 (14,960 published local jobs).
Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 35620 · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ $86K mean
MEAN-MEGA · RPP-ELEV · OCC-FULL · TOP-LEAD · EMP-HEAVY · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MEGA #7/528
- RPP-ELEV 112.6
- OCC-FULL 757 occs
- TOP-LEAD Cardiologists · $492K
- EMP-HEAVY Lawyers
- TREND-INLINE -1.5 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Boston-Cambridge…
- BOOK-FULL 730 rows · May 2025
Read with Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH (+$1,926 on published-row mean) · Salary vs. cost of living
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 New York-Newark-Jersey City
Largest New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ payrolls before the high-cost adjustment
Lawyers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Lawyers 94,610 jobs · $208,880
- 2. Financial Managers 89,960 jobs · $221,010
- 3. Computer and Information Systems Managers 62,430 jobs · $215,300
- 4. Sales Managers 44,870 jobs · $215,150
- 5. Physicians, All Other 17,210 jobs · $265,930
- 6. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 10,030 jobs · $335,270
- 7. Chief Executives 7,180 jobs · $301,440
- 8. Anesthesiologists 7,080 jobs · $460,800
- 9. Family Medicine Physicians 4,870 jobs · $249,150
- 10. Pediatricians, General 4,510 jobs · $216,040
- 11. Surgeons, All Other 4,290 jobs · $399,990
- 12. Psychiatrists 4,180 jobs · $249,130
- 13. Emergency Medicine Physicians 3,070 jobs · $289,440
- 14. Obstetricians and Gynecologists 2,470 jobs · $329,750
- 15. Nurse Anesthetists 2,310 jobs · $321,030
- 16. Cardiologists 2,050 jobs · $492,150
- 17. Dermatologists 2,040 jobs · $374,000
- 18. Radiologists 1,950 jobs · $465,780
Occupations Tracked
757
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$86,281
employment-weighted, 730 complete rows
Top Salary
$492,150
Cardiologists
Cost of Living
112.6
13% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cardiologists | $492,150 |
| 2 | Radiologists | $465,780 |
| 3 | Anesthesiologists | $460,800 |
| 4 | Surgeons, All Other | $399,990 |
| 5 | Dermatologists | $374,000 |
| 6 | Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons | $342,730 |
| 7 | Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric | $341,430 |
| 8 | Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | $335,270 |
| 9 | Obstetricians and Gynecologists | $329,750 |
| 10 | Physicians, Pathologists | $327,770 |
| 11 | Nurse Anesthetists | $321,030 |
| 12 | Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric | $302,410 |
| 13 | Chief Executives | $301,440 |
| 14 | Pediatric Surgeons | $293,440 |
| 15 | Emergency Medicine Physicians | $289,440 |
| 16 | Orthodontists | $281,850 |
| 17 | Physicians, All Other | $265,930 |
| 18 | Family Medicine Physicians | $249,150 |
| 19 | Psychiatrists | $249,130 |
| 20 | Commercial Pilots | $225,900 |
| 21 | Financial Managers | $221,010 |
| 22 | Pediatricians, General | $216,040 |
| 23 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $215,300 |
| 24 | Sales Managers | $215,150 |
| 25 | Lawyers | $208,880 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other | $33,790 |
| Food Processing Workers, All Other | $34,790 |
| Manicurists and Pedicurists | $34,910 |
| Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other | $35,060 |
| Physical Therapist Aides | $35,320 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $35,360 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $35,420 |
| Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers | $35,520 |
| Slaughterers and Meat Packers | $35,560 |
| Dishwashers | $35,670 |
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 ($86,281 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ wage figures in a real decision
- Cardiologists leads published medians in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ at $492,150/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Cardiologists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $86,281 adjusts to about $76,651 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 112.6. 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.