Bus Drivers, School
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 2,040.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Kiryas Joel earn more.
$59,610 in Kiryas Joel buys what $54,500 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 | $59,790 | $53,100 | 112.6 | −2.5% |
| Kiryas Joel This page | $59,610 | $54,500 | 109.4 | — |
| Syracuse | $57,590 | $60,200 | 95.7 | +10.4% |
| Ithaca | $54,620 | $52,900 | 103.3 | −3.0% |
| Rochester | $51,780 | $53,400 | 97.0 | −2.0% |
| Buffalo | $51,500 | $53,700 | 95.8 | −1.4% |
| Kingston | $51,250 | $50,900 | 100.7 | −6.6% |
| Elmira | $50,370 | $53,400 | 94.4 | −2.1% |
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
- 2,040 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 53-3051, Bus Drivers, School. Mapped to our taxonomy as bus-drivers-school.
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