Watertown-Fort Drum, NY Salaries
Local wages where BEA prices sit below the US average (RPP 87.7) - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Watertown-Fort Drum, NY moved from $46,630 in May 2024 to $47,600 in May 2025 (+2.1%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Watertown-Fort Drum, NY sits -1.0 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 48060 · Watertown-Fort Drum, NY $57K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-QUIET · OCC-THIN · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-MOST
- MEAN-LOW #292/528
- RPP-QUIET 87.7
- OCC-THIN 199 occs
- TOP-LEAD Computer and I… · $149K
- EMP-MIX Registered N…
- TREND-INLINE -1.0 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Flint, MI
- BOOK-MOST 197 rows · May 2025
Read with Flint, MI (+$5 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 Watertown-Fort Drum, NY
Where Watertown-Fort Drum, NY already employs the upper wage tier
Registered Nurses and Project Management Specialists lead published employment inside Watertown-Fort Drum, NY's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Registered Nurses 900 jobs · $96,070
- 2. Project Management Specialists 140 jobs · $104,110
- 3. Computer Occupations, All Other 120 jobs · $94,740
- 4. Medical and Health Services Managers 110 jobs · $117,750
- 5. Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 100 jobs · $105,050
- 6. Financial Managers 90 jobs · $123,800
- 7. Pharmacists 80 jobs · $143,250
- 8. Managers, All Other 80 jobs · $126,440
- 9. Software Developers 80 jobs · $119,350
- 10. Sales Managers 70 jobs · $143,280
- 11. Lawyers 70 jobs · $136,970
- 12. Nurse Practitioners 70 jobs · $133,900
- 13. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 70 jobs · $106,750
- 14. Detectives and Criminal Investigators 70 jobs · $106,110
- 15. Physician Assistants 60 jobs · $128,870
- 16. Physicians, All Other 50 jobs · $121,040
- 17. Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 50 jobs · $104,410
- 18. Mechanical Engineers 50 jobs · $97,400
Occupations Tracked
199
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$57,010
employment-weighted, 197 complete rows
Top Salary
$148,540
Computer and Information Systems Managers
Cost of Living
87.7
12% below US avg
Top-pay occupations in Watertown-Fort Drum, NY, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Watertown-Fort Drum, NY
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Food Preparation Workers | $32,390 |
| Recreation Workers | $32,410 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $32,580 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $32,830 |
| Cashiers | $33,040 |
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $33,070 |
| School Bus Monitors | $33,290 |
| Dishwashers | $33,330 |
| Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors | $33,340 |
| Childcare Workers | $33,630 |
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 ($57,010 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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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.