2026 Edition · An annual reference on what work pays

Computer User Support Specialists

Worcester, MA metropolitan area. Estimated employment 1,150.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 15-1232
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

Drag the marker, or type a figure
$62,280 · 50th
$42,83010th
$49,47025th
$62,28050th
$79,40075th
$96,62090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$62,280 in Worcester buys what $60,700 buys across the country as a whole.

Worcester's regional price parity is 102.5 — 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 Massachusetts

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

Metro areaMedianAdjustedRPPvs. Worcester
Boston$77,850$71,900108.3+18.4%
Amherst Town$64,470$64,300100.2+5.9%
Springfield$63,960$66,60096.1+9.6%
Barnstable Town$62,770$63,80098.4+5.1%
Worcester This page$62,280$60,700102.5
Pittsfield$60,100$63,20095.1+4.0%

Price parity and difference against Worcester 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
1,150 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 15-1232, Computer User Support Specialists. Mapped to our taxonomy as computer-user-support-specialists.

Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented.