Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary
Ithaca, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 670.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Ithaca earn more.
$102,910 in Ithaca buys what $99,600 buys across the country as a whole.
Ithaca's regional price parity is 103.3 — above the national average, so the nominal figure overstates what it buys. 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. Ithaca |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ithaca This page | $102,910 | $99,600 | 103.3 | — |
| New York | $100,950 | $89,700 | 112.6 | −10.0% |
| Binghamton | $95,160 | $102,500 | 92.9 | +2.9% |
| Kiryas Joel | $84,060 | $76,800 | 109.4 | −22.9% |
| Buffalo | $82,480 | $86,100 | 95.8 | −13.6% |
| Albany | $82,030 | $82,400 | 99.6 | −17.3% |
| Syracuse | $81,420 | $85,000 | 95.7 | −14.6% |
| Utica | $80,990 | $87,400 | 92.7 | −12.3% |
Price parity and difference against Ithaca 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
- 670 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 25-1121, Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary. Mapped to our taxonomy as art-drama-and-music-teachers-postsecondary.
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