2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other

Ithaca, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 130.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 21-1099
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

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$75,860 · 50th
$60,56010th
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$75,86050th
$76,67075th
$95,09090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$75,860 in Ithaca buys what $73,400 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.

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. Ithaca
Ithaca This page$75,860$73,400103.3
Kingston$74,660$74,100100.7+1.0%
Kiryas Joel$70,310$64,300109.4−12.5%
Albany$67,220$67,50099.6−8.1%
New York$66,580$59,100112.6−19.4%
Rochester$66,580$68,60097.0−6.6%
Glens Falls$66,460$70,10094.9−4.6%
Elmira$64,690$68,50094.4−6.7%

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

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.
Employment
130 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 21-1099, Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other. Mapped to our taxonomy as community-and-social-service-specialists-all-other.

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