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Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metropolitan area. Estimated employment 20,920.

Data released May 2025 BLS OEWS · SOC 11-9032
Fig. 1 — The wage rule

Where you sit in the distribution

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$163,210 · 50th
$99,73010th
$129,14025th
$163,21050th
$174,50075th
$206,64090th

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

Table 1 — Adjusted

$163,210 in New York buys what $145,000 buys across the country as a whole.

New York's regional price parity is 112.6 — 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. New York
New York This page$163,210$145,000112.6
Kingston$137,220$136,300100.7−6.0%
Kiryas Joel$136,210$124,500109.4−14.1%
Albany$125,480$126,00099.6−13.1%
Buffalo$124,990$130,40095.8−10.1%
Ithaca$121,910$118,000103.3−18.6%
Utica$119,700$129,20092.7−10.9%
Syracuse$110,010$114,90095.7−20.8%

Price parity and difference against New York are in the full table on wider screens.

Fig. 2 — Five-year trend

Nominal against real

The same median, once as published and once restated in 2025 dollars.

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Nominal, as published Real, in 2025 dollars US$ thousands

Published pay rose 24.7% over the five years to 2025. Adjusted for inflation it still rose 4.9% — pay has outrun prices since 2021. The two lines meet at the right edge by construction, since 2025 is the base year.

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.
Inflation
Real figures deflate by CPI-U annual averages (BLS, all items, US city average).
Employment
20,920 employed in this occupation in the metro (BLS estimate; excludes the self-employed).
Occupation
SOC 11-9032, Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary. Mapped to our taxonomy as education-administrators-kindergarten-through-secondary.

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