Animal Caretakers
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 540.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of animal caretakers in Kiryas Joel earn more.
$36,360 in Kiryas Joel buys what $33,200 buys across the country as a whole.
Kiryas Joel's regional price parity is 109.4 — well above the national average — a dollar here buys noticeably less than in the US as a whole. Adjusted figures for other metros are in the nearby-metros table below.
The same job, elsewhere in New York
Adjusted figures apply each metro's regional price parity, so the columns are directly comparable.
| Metro area | Median | Adjusted | RPP | vs. Kiryas Joel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | $37,900 | $33,700 | 112.6 | +1.3% |
| Ithaca | $36,930 | $35,700 | 103.3 | +7.6% |
| Kiryas Joel This page | $36,360 | $33,200 | 109.4 | — |
| Glens Falls | $35,890 | $37,800 | 94.9 | +13.9% |
| Albany | $35,640 | $35,800 | 99.6 | +7.7% |
| Syracuse | $35,500 | $37,100 | 95.7 | +11.6% |
| Utica | $35,460 | $38,300 | 92.7 | +15.1% |
| Kingston | $35,090 | $34,800 | 100.7 | +4.9% |
Price parity and difference against Kiryas Joel are in the full table on wider screens.
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.
- Employment
- 540 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 39-2021, Animal Caretakers. Mapped to our taxonomy as animal-caretakers.
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