Dental Assistants
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY metropolitan area. Estimated employment 620.
Where you sit in the distribution
That is the median — half of dental assistants in Kiryas Joel earn more.
$49,120 in Kiryas Joel buys what $44,900 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.
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. Kiryas Joel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elmira | $49,450 | $52,400 | 94.4 | +16.7% |
| Kiryas Joel This page | $49,120 | $44,900 | 109.4 | — |
| Rochester | $48,780 | $50,300 | 97.0 | +12.0% |
| New York | $48,430 | $43,000 | 112.6 | −4.2% |
| Albany | $48,220 | $48,400 | 99.6 | +7.9% |
| Ithaca | $48,170 | $46,600 | 103.3 | +3.9% |
| Kingston | $47,940 | $47,600 | 100.7 | +6.0% |
| Buffalo | $47,610 | $49,700 | 95.8 | +10.7% |
Price parity and difference against Kiryas Joel 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
- 620 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
- Occupation
- SOC 31-9091, Dental Assistants. Mapped to our taxonomy as dental-assistants.
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