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Data Entry Keyers

Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 210.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 43-9021
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$39,910 · 50th
$32,76010th
$37,70025th
$39,91050th
$47,94075th
$58,56090th

That is the medianhalf of data entry keyers in Kiryas Joel earn more.

Table 1 — Adjusted

$39,910 in Kiryas Joel buys what $36,500 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.

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. Kiryas Joel
New York$45,350$40,300112.6+10.5%
Syracuse$42,840$44,70095.7+22.7%
Kingston$41,370$41,100100.7+12.6%
Buffalo$41,090$42,90095.8+17.5%
Kiryas Joel This page$39,910$36,500109.4
Albany$39,840$40,00099.6+9.7%
Rochester$39,400$40,60097.0+11.3%
Binghamton$38,940$41,90092.9+15.0%

Price parity and difference against Kiryas Joel 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
210 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 43-9021, Data Entry Keyers. Mapped to our taxonomy as data-entry-keyers.

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