Cooks, Short Order
Glens Falls, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 130.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of people in this occupation in Glens Falls earn more.
$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.
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. Glens Falls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester | $36,580 | $37,700 | 97.0 | −0.5% |
| Kingston | $36,310 | $36,100 | 100.7 | −4.9% |
| Ithaca | $36,200 | $35,000 | 103.3 | −7.5% |
| Syracuse | $36,190 | $37,800 | 95.7 | −0.3% |
| Kiryas Joel | $36,170 | $33,100 | 109.4 | −12.8% |
| Glens Falls This page | $35,950 | $37,900 | 94.9 | — |
| New York | $35,360 | $31,400 | 112.6 | −17.1% |
| Binghamton | $35,240 | $37,900 | 92.9 | +0.1% |
Price parity and difference against Glens Falls 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
- 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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