Houston vs. New York
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks. Median, spread and buying power, side by side.
Data released May 2025
BLS OEWS · SOC 43-3031
Fig. 1 — Side by side
Both distributions, one scale
10th to 90th percentile, median struck in red
Table 1 — Adjusted
New York's median is 22.6% higher — but after local prices, New York still leads by 7.4%.
Houston's median $49,460 buys $50,100 at national prices (price parity 98.6); New York's $60,640 buys $53,900 (112.6).
Table 2 — The figures
Point by point
Published percentiles for both metros; the last column is New York against Houston.
| Houston | New York | Δ | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment | 26,090 | 77,010 | +195.2% |
| 10th percentile | $34,730 | $42,650 | +22.8% |
| 25th percentile | $41,860 | $49,820 | +19.0% |
| Median | $49,460 | $60,640 | +22.6% |
| 75th percentile | $60,460 | $73,770 | +22.0% |
| 90th percentile | $74,010 | $85,260 | +15.2% |
Sources
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Public domain.
- Price parity
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024.
- Full pages
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