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Cooks, Short Order

Glens Falls, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 130.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 35-2015
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$35,950 · 50th
$32,24010th
$32,24025th
$35,95050th
$37,81075th
$44,06090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$35,950 in Glens Falls buys what $37,900 buys across the country as a whole.

Glens Falls's regional price parity is 94.9 — below the national average, so a dollar here goes further than the nominal figure suggests. 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. Glens Falls
Rochester$36,580$37,70097.0−0.5%
Kingston$36,310$36,100100.7−4.9%
Ithaca$36,200$35,000103.3−7.5%
Syracuse$36,190$37,80095.7−0.3%
Kiryas Joel$36,170$33,100109.4−12.8%
Glens Falls This page$35,950$37,90094.9
New York$35,360$31,400112.6−17.1%
Binghamton$35,240$37,90092.9+0.1%

Price parity and difference against Glens Falls 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 35-2015, Cooks, Short Order. Mapped to our taxonomy as cooks-short-order.

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