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Amusement and Recreation Attendants

Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 810.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 39-3091
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$33,610 · 50th
$32,24010th
$32,90025th
$33,61050th
$36,30075th
$45,18090th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Albany earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$33,610 in Albany buys what $33,800 buys across the country as a whole.

Albany's regional price parity is 99.6 — almost exactly the national average — the nominal figure is close to the real one here, which is not true of most large metros. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.

Table 2 — Nearby metros

The same job, elsewhere in New York

Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Albany
New York$35,910$31,900112.6−5.5%
Kiryas Joel$35,120$32,100109.4−4.9%
Kingston$33,970$33,700100.7−0.1%
Buffalo$33,730$35,20095.8+4.3%
Albany This page$33,610$33,80099.6
Syracuse$33,290$34,80095.7+3.0%
Glens Falls$33,080$34,90094.9+3.3%
Utica$32,970$35,60092.7+5.4%

Price parity and difference against Albany are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 19.3% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it is roughly flat — people in this occupation in Albany earn about what they earned in 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

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.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
810 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 39-3091, Amusement and Recreation Attendants. Mapped to our taxonomy as amusement-and-recreation-attendants.

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