Syracuse, NY Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Syracuse, NY - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Syracuse, NY moved from $50,800 in May 2024 to $52,990 in May 2025 (+4.3%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Syracuse, NY sits +1.2 pp ahead of that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Syracuse, NY
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $47,640 here versus $35,230 nationally (+35.2%; 3,430metro-area jobs). Next is Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education at $78,560 locally versus $63,970 nationally (+22.8%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$47,640 in Syracuse, NY sits 35.2% above the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (3,430 published local jobs).
- Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education$78,560 in Syracuse, NY sits 22.8% above the national Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education median of $63,970 (2,620 published local jobs).
- Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education$78,500 in Syracuse, NY sits 22.0% above the national Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education median of $64,370 (2,210 published local jobs).
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand$44,660 in Syracuse, NY sits 11.0% above the national Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand median of $40,240 (6,390 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Syracuse, NY; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 45060 · Syracuse, NY $67K mean
MEAN-HIGH · RPP-MID · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-HIGH #74/528
- RPP-MID 95.7
- OCC-MOST 517 occs
- TOP-LEAD Cardiologists · $461K
- EMP-MIX Financial Ma…
- TREND-INLINE +1.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Bloomington, IL
- BOOK-FULL 507 rows · May 2025
Read with Bloomington, IL ($38 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 Syracuse, NY
Employment scale inside Syracuse, NY's top-pay list
Financial Managers and Computer and Information Systems Managers lead published employment inside Syracuse, NY's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Financial Managers 1,220 jobs · $169,270
- 2. Computer and Information Systems Managers 740 jobs · $169,760
- 3. Pharmacists 740 jobs · $149,510
- 4. Marketing Managers 660 jobs · $155,360
- 5. Sales Managers 640 jobs · $170,090
- 6. Physicians, All Other 540 jobs · $286,920
- 7. Architectural and Engineering Managers 470 jobs · $169,980
- 8. Managers, All Other 430 jobs · $148,810
- 9. Human Resources Managers 290 jobs · $146,160
- 10. Chief Executives 240 jobs · $216,610
- 11. General Internal Medicine Physicians 200 jobs · $269,270
- 12. Dentists, General 190 jobs · $191,830
- 13. Emergency Medicine Physicians 170 jobs · $181,980
- 14. Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates 120 jobs · $172,270
- 15. Nuclear Engineers 110 jobs · $141,200
- 16. Family Medicine Physicians 100 jobs · $191,510
- 17. Optometrists 100 jobs · $153,790
- 18. Computer Hardware Engineers 100 jobs · $141,180
Occupations Tracked
517
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$66,932
employment-weighted, 507 complete rows
Top Salary
$460,900
Cardiologists
Cost of Living
95.7
4% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Syracuse, NY
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cardiologists | $460,900 |
| 2 | Obstetricians and Gynecologists | $320,350 |
| 3 | Physicians, All Other | $286,920 |
| 4 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $269,270 |
| 5 | Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric | $239,000 |
| 6 | Chief Executives | $216,610 |
| 7 | Dentists, General | $191,830 |
| 8 | Family Medicine Physicians | $191,510 |
| 9 | Podiatrists | $182,830 |
| 10 | Emergency Medicine Physicians | $181,980 |
| 11 | Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates | $172,270 |
| 12 | Pediatricians, General | $170,780 |
| 13 | Sales Managers | $170,090 |
| 14 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $169,980 |
| 15 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $169,760 |
| 16 | Financial Managers | $169,270 |
| 17 | Marketing Managers | $155,360 |
| 18 | Optometrists | $153,790 |
| 19 | Pharmacists | $149,510 |
| 20 | Managers, All Other | $148,810 |
| 21 | Human Resources Managers | $146,160 |
| 22 | Training and Development Managers | $144,410 |
| 23 | Public Relations Managers | $143,980 |
| 24 | Nuclear Engineers | $141,200 |
| 25 | Computer Hardware Engineers | $141,180 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Syracuse, NY
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Physical Therapist Aides | $32,240 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $32,870 |
| Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers | $33,220 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $33,290 |
| Food Batchmakers | $33,330 |
| Manicurists and Pedicurists | $33,530 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $33,560 |
| Bicycle Repairers | $33,640 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $33,940 |
| Cashiers | $33,950 |
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 ($66,932 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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- Cardiologists leads published medians in Syracuse, NY at $460,900/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Cardiologists
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $66,932 adjusts to about $69,909 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 95.7. 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.